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of 1086 as Wacet. Twenty-first-century authorities mostly agree that the name comes from the Common Brittonic words that survive in modern Welsh as gwo- ("under-") and coed ("woodland"). Thus the name once meant "under the wood".

History

Daw's Castle (Dart's Castle or Dane's Castle) is an Iron Age sea cliff hill fort about 0.5 mi to the west of the town. It was built and fortified, on the site of

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