St Nicholas at Wade

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A village and civil parish (served by St Nicholas at Wade and Sarre Parish Council) in Thanet district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR2666).

Word forms

St Nicholas at Wade

Etymology

Named after the 13th-century parish church of St Nicholas, a chapel of ease for St Mary's Church, Reculver. "Wade" is from Old English wæd (“ford, shallow water”).

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