Wadebridge

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A town and civil parish with a town council in northern Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW9972).

Etymology

From wade + bridge. Originally named Wade, as the River Camel had to be waded here until a bridge was built in 1468.

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