Went.
A surname from Middle English.
Meaning & usage
A surname from Middle English.
The River Went, a river in West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and East Riding of Yorkshire, England, a tributary of the River Don. It forms the boundary between South Yorkshire and both North Yorkshire and the East Riding in its lower reaches.
Where this word comes from
Topographic surname, from Middle English went (“crossroad, passage”).
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