The story
No definite suggestion can be made about the origin of the placename in Worcestershire; perhaps from the Old English unattested personal name *Wēna + land (“land”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Welland
Today it means: A river in Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire, which flows into the Wash, a large bay on the North Sea. Full definition →