Welland.
A placename:
Meaning & usage
A placename: A river in Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire, which flows into the Wash, a large bay on the North Sea.
A placename: A village and civil parish (served by Little Malvern and Welland Parish Council) in Malvern Hills district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO7940).
A placename: A river in southern Ontario, Canada, which joins the Niagara River and was named after the English river.
A placename: A city on the Welland River in Niagara regional municipality, Ontario.
A placename: An unincorporated community in Mendota Township, LaSalle County, and Brooklyn Township, Lee County, Illinois, United States.
A placename: A suburb of Adelaide in the City of Charles Sturt, South Australia, named after the English village.
A habitational surname from Old English.
Where this word comes from
No definite suggestion can be made about the origin of the placename in Worcestershire; perhaps from the Old English unattested personal name *Wēna + land (“land”).
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