Bridgwater

Bedeutung (Englisch)

1. A market town and civil parish with a town council in Sedgemoor district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST3037).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Etymologie (Englisch)

Recorded as Brigewaltier in the Pipe rolls, the town's name derives from Old English bryċġ (“bridge”) + the personal name Walter, from the local landowner Walter of Douai.

Sätze

It is named after the town of Bridgwater in the English county of Somerset .

Es ist nach der Stadt Bridgwater in der englischen Grafschaft Somerset benannt.