Wentworth
English
Etymology
From either the Old English byname Wintra, or Old English winter (“winter”) + Old English worþ (“enclosure”).
Proper noun
Wentworth (countable and uncountable, plural Wentworths)
- Any of several placenames in England and elsewhere.
- A number of places in the United States:
- A village in Newton County, Missouri.
- A town in Grafton County, New Hampshire.
- A town, the county seat of Rockingham County, North Carolina.
- A village in Lake County, South Dakota.
- Places in Canada:
- A community in south-west Calgary, Alberta.
- A rural community in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia.
- A township municipality in the Laurentides, Quebec.
- A small village and civil parish in East Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL4878).
- A village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK3898).
- A suburb of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
- A town in Wentworth Shire, south-west New South Wales, Australia, on the border with Victoria.
- An electoral division in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- A number of places in the United States:
- The Wentworth Golf Club in Surrey.
- A habitational surname from Old English.
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