Wootton

Wootton is an English place name meaning place by the wood. The standard pronunciation rhymes the first syllable with foot.

Places

Places in England called Wootton

• Wootton, Bedfordshire
• Wootton Fitzpaine, Dorset
• Wootton, New Forest, hamlet in south-west Hampshire
• Wootton St Lawrence, village near Basingstoke, Hampshire
• Wootton, Herefordshire
• Wootton, Isle of Wight, also known as Wootton Bridge
• Wootton, Kent
• Wootton, North Lincolnshire
• Wootton, Northamptonshire
• Wootton, Oxfordshire (disambiguation):
  • Wootton, Vale of White Horse
  • Wootton, West Oxfordshire (also known as Wootton-by-Woodstock)
• Wootton, Shropshire
• Wootton, Staffordshire
• Wootton Wawen, village in Stratford, England
• Royal Wootton Bassett, town in Wiltshire
• Wootton Rivers, Wiltshire
• Leek Wootton, Warwickshire

Places in Australia called Wootton

• Wootton, New South Wales

Fictional places called Wootton

• Wootton Major, a fictional place in the short story Smith of Wootton Major by J. R. R. Tolkien

People

Wootton is also a surname derived from the place name.

• Barbara Adam Wootton, economist
• Bob Wootton, folk guitarist with Johnny Cash
• Brenda Wootton, Cornish folk singer
• Chris Wootton, Australian Race Driver
• Corey Wootton, American football player
• Frank Wootton, English painter
• Frank Wootton, Australian jockey
• George Wootton (1834-1924), English cricketer
• Jeff Wootton American educator
• Jeff Wootton, English musician
• John Wootton, English painter
• Lloyd "Moon" Wootton, Canadian lacrosse player
• Marc Wootton, English comedian
• Scott Wootton, English footballer
• Thomas Sprigg Wootton, founder of Montgomery County, Maryland

See also

• Wootten (disambiguation)
• Wooten (disambiguation)
• North Wootton (disambiguation)
• Wotton (disambiguation)
• Thomas S. Wootton High School