Wantisden is a small village and

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in the

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district of

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in eastern

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. Largely consisting of a single farm and ancient woodland ( Staverton Park and The Thicks), most of its 30 residents live on the farm estate. It shares a parish council with nearby Butley and Capel St. Andrew. It has a church dedicated to St John the Baptist. The place-name 'Wantisden' is first attested in the

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of 1086, where it appears as ''Wantesdena'' and ''Wantesdana''. The name means 'Want's dene or valley'.

Eilert Ekwall Bror Oscar Eilert Ekwall (born 8 January 1877 in Vallsjö (now in Sävsjö, Jönköpings län), Sweden, died 23 November 1964 in Lund, Skåne län, Sweden), known as Eilert Ekwall, was Professor of English at Sweden's Lund University from 1909 to ...

, ''The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names'', p.496

References

External links

* http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SFK/Wantisden/ * http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/place_page.jsp?p_id=7848 * http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/england/suffolk/wantisden Villages in Suffolk Civil parishes in Suffolk Suffolk Coastal {{Suffolk-geo-stub