Willington, Tyne and Wear
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Willington is a village in Tyne and Wear, England. It has an industrial estate.
The place-name derives from Old English tun (homestead or farm) of Wifel's people, and appears in 1085 as Wiflintun, and as Wiuelington in 1204.[1]
[edit] References
- The geographic coordinates are from the Ordnance Survey.
- ^ Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names (4th ed.), p. 520.
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