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Whaddon is a village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire, England, north of Royston. ==History== The parish of Whaddon covers an area of . Its entire western boundary follows the Roman Ermine Street (now the A1198), separating it from Bassingbourn and Wendy, and its northern border follows the River Cam (or Rhee), dividing it from Wimpole and Orwell. A stream separates it from Kneesworth to the south, and field boundaries from Melbourn to the east. Much of Whaddon was formerly part of the estate of Wimpole Hall, and the hall's South Avenue, originally two double rows of elms planted in 1720 (now oak and lime), stretches 2 kilometres across the parish to Ermine Street. The Basin, an octagonal pool of around 150 metres in diameter, was added in 1721 just south of the river but was cleared a few decades later and filled with soil in 1968.〔 In 1812, an Act authorised the creation of a canal running from Whaddon to Sawston as part of the Stort Navigation, but the canal was never dug.〔 Listed as ''Wadone'' in the Domesday Book of 1086, the name "Waddon" means "hill where wheat is grown".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A Dictionary of British Place-Names )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Whaddon, Cambridgeshire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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