The story
- Old English · derived fromwād“woad”
- English todayOdell
The village was known as Wadehelle in the Domesday Book, from Old English wād (“woad”) + hyll (“hill”).
Words from the same roots
Old Englishwād all →
WaddellwoadWatton-at-Stone
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.