Meanings
plural Whitwells
- A number of places in England:
- countableuncountableA village and civil parish in Bolsover district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK5276).
- countableuncountableA village in St Paul's Walden parish, North Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire (OS grid ref TL1821).
- countableuncountableA village in Niton and Whitwell parish, Isle of Wight (OS grid ref SZ5278).
- countableuncountableA locality in Reepham parish, Broadland district, Norfolk (OS grid ref TG0921).
1 more example
The east of the market place is dominated by the tall tower of St Michael's Church, which strangely is not the parish church of Reepham but of neighbouring Whitwell. At one time three churches stood in the churchyard; Reepham's Church of St Mary is joined by its choir vestry to St Michael's, and the third church belonged to Hackford, but has been a ruin since 1543.
1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 331, about Reepham, Norfolk - countableuncountableA hamlet and civil parish in North Yorkshire, previously in Hambleton district (OS grid ref SE2899).
- countableuncountableA small village and civil parish in Rutland (OS grid ref SK9208).
- countableuncountableA city in Marion County, Tennessee, United States.
- countableuncountableA habitational surname from Old English.
Origin
- Old Englishhwīt“white”
- EnglishWhitwell
From Old English hwīt (“white”) + well.
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