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==Etymology== The name of Chideock is first attested in the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086, as ''Cidihoc''.<ref name=Gant>{{cite book|title=Dorset Villages|author=Roland Gant|publisher=Robert Hale Ltd|pages=122β3|year=1980|isbn=0-7091-8135-3}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book |title=The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2004 |isbn=9780521168557 |editor-last=Watts |editor-first=Victor |location=Cambridge}}, s.v. ''Chideock''.</ref> This name is unusual in England for being derived from [[Common Brittonic]], in this case the word that survives in modern Welsh as {{lang|cy|coediog}} ("wooded").<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" />{{rp|294}}
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