Windrush.
A river in Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, England, a tributary of the Thames.
Meaning & usage
A river in Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, England, a tributary of the Thames.
A village and civil parish in Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, named after the river (OS grid ref SP1913).
The first significant wave of immigration of British African-Caribbean people in the 1940s and 1950s.
The Windrush scandal; the wrongful deportation of British citizens from the UK in the 2010s, especially of Caribbean immigrants belonging to the Windrush generation.
The Windrush line on the London Overground.
Where this word comes from
First attested in the Domesday Book as Old English Wenric, from Old Welsh gwynn (“white”) + reisko (“fen”). More recent senses derive from the ship HMT Empire Windrush, named after the River Windrush. The arrival of 802 immigrants to the UK from the West Indies onboard the Empire Windrush in 1948 is seen as symbolic of the beginning of mass immigration from the Caribbean to the UK. The Windrush line was named for its running through several parts of London with large British Caribbean population.
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