Etymology

Watlington

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Today it means: A village and civil parish in King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF6110). Full definition →

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The story

From an unattested Old English personal name + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.