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Puddletown

Puddletown proper noun: a village and civil parish (served by the Puddletown Area Parish Council (Group)) in Dorset, England (OS grid ref SY7594).

Proper noun

Puddletown

  1. A village and civil parish (served by the Puddletown Area Parish Council (Group)) in Dorset, England (OS grid ref SY7594).

Origin of Puddletown

Renamed from Piddletown in the 1920s because of association with the word piddle; it is actually named after the River Piddle + town, earlier forms were Pideleton (1212) and Pitretone (Domesday Book 1086). Other places on the River Piddle, Piddlehinton and Piddletrenthide, were apparently not renamed.

Questions about Puddletown

What does Puddletown mean?
Puddletown means a village and civil parish (served by the Puddletown Area Parish Council (Group)) in Dorset, England (OS grid ref SY7594).
What part of speech is Puddletown?
Puddletown is a proper noun.

Words near Puddletown in the dictionary

  1. puddler
  2. puddlers
  3. puddles
  4. puddles up
  5. puddlesome
  6. Puddletown
  7. puddley
  8. puddlier
  9. puddliest
  10. puddling
  11. puddling up

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