[Image: Fragment of the Gough Map]
[Image: Fragment of the Gough Map]
The Gough Map of Great Britain
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Full record: Wallingford
| County | Berkshire |
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| Transcript | walynford |
| Icon description | single building, castle |
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| Etymology | OE Wealh, pers. name + ing + ford, 'the ford of Wealh's people' |
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| Earlier editors | Walyngford (Gough); Wallingford is placed on the Oxfordshire side of the Thames, but this is probably because there is no room for it on the Berkshire side (Parsons) |
| Early Maps | wallingford (Angliae Figura) |
| Overwritten | yes |
| Attested spelling | Walynforde 1326 (14th) Winchester, Walynford 1370 Os; all earlier froms have the first element in the form Waling- or similar |
