Willington, Cheshire

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Willington is a village and civil parish, about 5 miles from Chester, England. Administratively, it lies within Chester District in Cheshire. The place-name means "village of a woman called Winflǣd", from the Old English personal name Winflǣd + tun "farm, village". The name was recorded in the Domesday Book as Winfletone, and as Wynlaton in the 12th Century. [1]

Coordinates: 53°11′36″N, 2°40′54″W

[edit] References

The geographic coordinates are from the Ordnance Survey.

  1. ^ Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names (4th ed.), p. 520.
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