Wendover

Wendover is a town and civil parish at the foot of the Chiltern Hills in Buckinghamshire, England. It is situated at the point where the main road across the Chilterns between London and Aylesbury intersects with the once important road along the foot of the Chilterns. The town is some north west of London and south east of Aylesbury. The parish has an area of and had, at the time of the 2011 census, a population of 7,399. Outside Wendover, the parish is mainly arable and also contains several hamlets in the surrounding hills. Wendover has a weekly market, and has had a market charter since 1464. Etymology The original name is of the West Slavic Lechitic origin of the tribe of Wends (gwends) originally signifying a "queen", later a "woman", a "fair lady", later a "blessed", a "fair" as we can also see in Brythonic Celtic. The word derives from the Lechitic (Polish) Princess Wanda/Wenda from whom the tribe got its name. We can also see it in the later in the same semantic form in Celtic Brythonic rendition in Brythonic Celtic as wyn or gwyn as well as in modern Welsh. The second part of the name "dwr" derives from the Slavic and later, analogically transposed into Brythonic also as such "dwr" meaning "door", "gate" (also from Indo- European) "dwr", "dwra" door, gate, as the door/entrance/gate to the island (Britain). The Slavic- Indo-European -Welsh "dwr" is also the etymology of city of Dover (the door/gate to the British island.