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prefix Wulfrun or similar appearing in 1070 and thereafter. Alternatively, the city may have earned its original name from Wulfereeantun ('Wulfhere's high or principal enclosure or farm') after the Mercian King, who according to tradition established an abbey in 659, though no evidence of an abbey has been found. The variation Wolveren Hampton is seen in medieval records, for example in 1381. The Oxford English Dictionary

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