Etymology

Godalming

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Today it means: A town and civil parish with a town council in Waverley borough, Surrey, England (OS grid ref SU9643). Full definition →

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The story

From the unrecorded Old English personal name *Godhelm + -ing (“belonging to”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.