English Explanatory Dictionary

Wadebridge

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A town and civil parish with a town council in northern Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW9972).

Word forms

Wadebridge

Etymology

From Old English wæd (“ford”) (whence wath) + bridge. Originally named Wade, as the River Camel had to be waded here until a bridge was built in 1468.

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