English Explanatory Dictionary

Wrythe

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A suburban area (district) of Carshalton in the Borough of Sutton, Greater London.
  2. A portion of the River Wandle as it flows through Carshalton and past the Wrythe.
name
  1. A surname.
name
  1. The claimed capital city of Austenasia, a terraced house in the Wrythe, Carshalton, London Borough of Sutton.

Word forms

Wrythe the Wrythe

Etymology

The place-name was coined (or at least standardised) in the Ordnance Survey's 1:1056 scale map series, published 1867, but first attested 10 August 1866 in a document presented to the House of Commons (see quotations) using the Survey's then-unpublished map data.

Derived words

Green Wrythe
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