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Edgware

settlement · Greater London

Old EnglishAI-generated

Edgware is a settlement named after a person called Ecgheard, with the suffix '-ware' meaning 'people of' or 'inhabitants of'.

Word origins

Edgware
Old Englishpeople of Ecgheard(from Ecgheard "personal name (edge-hard)", wāre "inhabitants, people of")

Historical forms

Eggewar · Edgware