Wootton is an English place name meaning ''place by the wood''. The standard pronunciation rhymes the first syllable with ''foot''.
Places
;Places in England called Wootton
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Wootton, Bedfordshire
Wootton is a large village and civil parish located to the south-west of Bedford, in the north of Bedfordshire, England. The parish also includes the hamlets of Hall End, Keeley Green and Wootton Green.
History
Wootton has had a long associa ...
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Wootton Fitzpaine
Wootton Fitzpaine is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in South West England. It lies approximately north-east of Lyme Regis in a small side valley of the River Char, close to the Marshwood Vale. The civil parish covers an area ...
, Dorset
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Wootton, New Forest
Wootton is a Hamlet (place), hamlet in the civil parish of New Milton in Hampshire, England. It is in the south of the New Forest.
Overview
Wootton is just north of the village of Bashley, Hampshire, Bashley in the civil parish of New Milton, al ...
, hamlet in south-west Hampshire
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Wootton St Lawrence
Wootton St Lawrence is a small village in the civil parish of Wootton St Lawrence with Ramsdell, in Hampshire, England, west of Basingstoke. The name is derived from the Old English ''wudu tun'' meaning woodland settlement or farm.
History
The ...
, village near Basingstoke, Hampshire
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Wootton, Almeley, a
location
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in Herefordshire
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Wootton, Dormington, a
location
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in Herefordshire
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Wootton, Isle of Wight
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Wootton Bridge
Wootton Bridge is a large village, civil parish and electoral ward with about 3,000 residents on the Isle of Wight, first recorded around the year 1086. The parish also contains the settlement of Wootton.
Wootton is found midway between the tow ...
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Wootton, Kent
Wootton is a village in the civil parish of Denton with Wootton, and the Dover District of Kent, England.
The village is northwest from the channel port of Dover, and east-southeast from the county town of Maidstone. The major A2 London to Do ...
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Wootton, Lincolnshire
Wootton is a small village and civil parish in North Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 475. It is situated south-east from Barton-upon-Humber, north-east from Brigg and north from Humberside Ai ...
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Wootton, Northamptonshire
Wootton is a former village about south of Northampton town centre that is now part of Northampton.
Wootton is separated from Hardingstone by the Newport Pagnell Road the B526, formerly part of the A50 road. Part of Wootton is alongside the ...
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Wootton, Vale of White Horse
Wootton is a village and civil parish in the Vale of White Horse about north-west of Abingdon. It was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire. The parish of Wootton includes the hamlets of Whitecross ...
, Oxfordshire
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Wootton, West Oxfordshire
Wootton is a village and civil parish on the River Glyme about north of Woodstock, Oxfordshire. In recent years the village is sometimes referred to as Wootton-by-Woodstock to distinguish it from Wootton, Vale of White Horse, which was in Berks ...
, Oxfordshire (also known as Wootton-by-Woodstock)
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Wootton, Onibury, a
location
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in Shropshire
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Wootton, Oswestry Rural, a
location
In geography, location or place are used to denote a region (point, line, or area) on Earth's surface or elsewhere. The term ''location'' generally implies a higher degree of certainty than ''place'', the latter often indicating an entity with an ...
in Shropshire
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Wootton, Staffordshire
Wootton is a village and civil parish in Staffordshire, England. The village is situated approximately 20 miles (30 km) east from Stoke-on-Trent and 20 miles (30 km) northwest from Derby.
History Toponymy
The name ''Wootton'' is thoug ...
, East Staffordshire
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Wootton, Stafford, a
location
In geography, location or place are used to denote a region (point, line, or area) on Earth's surface or elsewhere. The term ''location'' generally implies a higher degree of certainty than ''place'', the latter often indicating an entity with an ...
in Staffordshire
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Wootton Wawen
Wootton Wawen is a village and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district of Warwickshire, England. The village is on the A3400 in mid-western Warwickshire, about from Birmingham, about south of Henley-in-Arden and about north of Strat ...
, village in Stratford, England
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Royal Wootton Bassett
Royal Wootton Bassett , formerly Wootton Bassett, is a market town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, with a population of 11,043 in 2001, increasing to 11,385 in 2011. Situated in the north of the county, it lies to the west of the major ...
, town in Wiltshire
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Wootton Rivers
Wootton Rivers is a small village and civil parish in the Vale of Pewsey, Wiltshire, England. The village lies about northeast of Pewsey and south of Marlborough. During the 20th century its population halved and most of its facilities closed ...
, Wiltshire
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Leek Wootton
Leek Wootton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Leek Wootton and Guy's Cliffe, in the Warwick district, in the county of Warwickshire, England, approximately 2 miles south of Kenilworth and 2.5 miles north of Warwick. It ...
, Warwickshire
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Woottons, a
location
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in Staffordshire
;Places in Australia called Wootton:
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Wootton, New South Wales
;Fictional places called Wootton:
*Wootton Major, a fictional place in the short story
Smith of Wootton Major
''Smith of Wootton Major'', first published in 1967, is a novella by J. R. R. Tolkien.
Background
The book began as an attempt to explain the meaning of Faery by means of a story about a cook and his cake, and Tolkien originally thought to cal ...
by J. R. R. Tolkien
People
Wootton is also a surname derived from the place name.
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Barbara Adam Wootton
Barbara Wootton, Baroness Wootton of Abinger, CH (14 April 1897 – 11 July 1988) was a British sociologist and criminologist. She was the first of four women to be appointed as a life peer, entitled to serve in the House of Lords, under the ...
, economist
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Bob Wootton
Robert "Bob" Wootton (March 4, 1942 – April 9, 2017) was an American guitarist. He joined Johnny Cash's backing band, the Tennessee Three, after original lead guitarist Luther Perkins died in a house fire. He remained Cash's guitarist for n ...
, folk guitarist with Johnny Cash
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Brenda Wootton
Brenda Wootton (née Ellery) (10 February 1928 – 11 March 1994) was a British folk singer and poet and was seen as an ambassador for Cornish tradition and culture in all the Celtic nations and as far as Australia and Canada.
Early lif ...
, Cornish folk singer
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Chris Wootton
Christopher James Wootton (born 11 December 1988 in Darlinghurst, New South Wales) is an Australian racing driver.
With racing in his blood, Chris commenced his motor sporting career in karting in December 2004, at the Gold Coast Christmas rac ...
, Australian Race Driver
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Corey Wootton
Corey Andrew Wootton (born June 22, 1987) is a former American football defensive end who played in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Northwestern University. As a junior, he garnered first-team All-Big Ten Conferen ...
, American football player
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David Wootton (historian)
David Richard John Wootton (born 15 January 1952) is a British historian. He is Anniversary Professor of History at the University of York.
He has given the Raleigh Lecture at the British Academy (2008); the Carlyle Lectures at the University o ...
, British historian
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David Wootton (lord mayor), British lawyer and politician
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Curt Wootton
''Pittsburgh Dad'' is an online series of short films featuring the observations of a "blue-collar" father from Pittsburgh who speaks with a thick Pittsburghese dialect. The series was created by Chris Preksta and Curt Wootton in 2011. Wootton ...
, American actor
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Frank Wootton, English painter
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Frank Wootton, Australian jockey
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George Wootton
George Wootton (1834–1924) was an English cricketer.
Biography
Born 16 October 1834, Clifton, Nottinghamshire, England; Wootton joined the All England Eleven in 1860 English cricket season, 1860 but did not play his first first-class match ...
(1834-1924), English cricketer
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Jeff Wootton
Jeffrey Wootton (born 12 May 1987) is an English musician, guitarist and songwriter from Manchester. He has been the lead guitarist in the Gorillaz since 2010.
A long time collaborator with Damon Albarn, he has also collaborated with Brian Eno, ...
, English musician
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John Wootton
John Wootton (c.1686– 13 November 1764)Deuchar, S. (2003). "Wootton, John". Grove Art Online. was an English painter of sporting subjects, battle scenes and landscapes, and illustrator.
Life
Born in Snitterfield, Warwickshire (near Stratfo ...
, English painter
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Lloyd "Moon" Wootton, Canadian lacrosse player
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Marc Wootton
Marc James Wootton (born 8 February 1975) is an English actor, comedian and writer, best known for his role as Mr Poppy in the ''Nativity!'' film series. Wootton has also appeared in ''High Spirits with Shirley Ghostman'', ''La La Land'', ''Nig ...
(born 1975), English comedian
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Richens Lacey Wootton
Richens Lacy (or Lacey) Wootton (1816 - 1893), often referred to as "Uncle Dick" Wootton, was an American frontiersman born in Virginia, but lived most of his life in Colorado.
In his early life Wootton was a mountain man and trapper, then a hun ...
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Scott Wootton
Scott James Wootton (born 12 September 1991) is an English professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Defender (association football), defender for Wellington Phoenix FC, Wellington Phoenix in the A-League.
Wootton also gained ...
, English footballer
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Thomas Sprigg Wootton
Dr. Thomas Sprigg Wootton (c. 1740 – 1789) an American politician who served as one of members of the Maryland Constitutional Convention. Wootton was also one of the founders of Montgomery County, Maryland, which he did by introducing a bill in ...
, founder of Montgomery County, Maryland
See also
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Wootten Wootten is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*Ben Wootten (born 1969), New Zealand graphic designer, worked on the Lord of the Rings films
*George Wootten (1893–1970), Australian soldier
*Morgan Wootten (1931–2020), American b ...
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Wooten Wooten is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*Andrew Wooten (born 1989), German-American professional soccer player
* Brian Wooten (fl. 1982–1997), American musician
* Chandler Wooten (born 1999), American football player
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North Wootton (disambiguation) North Wootton may refer to:
* North Wootton, Dorset
*North Wootton, Norfolk
North Wootton is a village, civil parish and electoral ward near the town of King's Lynn in Norfolk, England.
It covers an area of and had a population of 2,387 in 9 ...
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Wotton (disambiguation)
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Thomas S. Wootton High School
Thomas S. Wootton High School or Wootton High School (WHS) is a public high school in Rockville, Maryland. Its namesake is Thomas S. Wootton, the founder of Montgomery County. The school was founded in 1970 and is part of the Montgomery County ...
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