Witchampton
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English[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Witchampton
- A village and civil parish (served by Vale of Allen Group Parish Council) in east Dorset, England (OS grid ref ST9806).
Further reading[edit]
- 1948, H. G. Stokes, English Place-names, page 20:
- What would you say was the original meaning of WITCHAMPTON? "The homestead enclosure of a witch" seems the obvious meaning until we find an earlier form, Wykehampton, which leads us to "Wickhampton" as the early sense.