Elvendon
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Elvendon is a small settlement in Oxfordshire and the Chiltern Hills, near Goring. It includes the grade II listed building Elvendon Priory.{{cite web | url=https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101194131-elvendon-priory-goring-on-thames#.Yw9PqtXMJjs | title=Elvendon Priory, Goring, Oxfordshire }}{{cite web | url=https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=241944&resourceID=19191 | title=Heritage Gateway - Results }}
Etymology
The first element of the name is agreed to be the word elf, either in singular or plural form.Alaric Hall, '[http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/3146/ Are there any Elves in Anglo-Saxon Place-Names?]', Nomina: Journal of the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland, 29 (2006), 61-80 (p. 76).Ann Cole, 'Two Chiltern Place-names Reconsidered: Elvendon and Misbourne', Journal of the English Place-name Society, 50 (2018), 65-74.{{rp|67}} The second element was long thought to derive from Old English {{lang|ae|dūn}} 'hill', but reanalysis of the primary evidence revealed that the second element is from Old English {{lang|ae|denu}} 'valley'. Thus at the time when it was coined, the name meant 'elves' valley' or something like it.{{rp|65–67}}
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