Editing Datchet (section)

==Etymology==
The name ''Datchet'' is first attested, in a [[charter]] from between 990 and 992, as ''Deccet''; it appears in the [[Domesday Book]] as ''Daceta''.<ref name="OD">{{cite web |last1=Powell-Smith |first1=Anna |title=Datchet |url=https://opendomesday.org/place/SU9877/datchet/ |website=Open Doomsday |publisher=Anna Powell-Smith. |access-date=27 September 2020}}</ref> The name is thought to be [[Celtic languages|Celtic]] in origin, partly because of its similarity to the ancient Gaulish name ''[[Decetia]]''; the last part may be the Brittonic word that appears in modern Welsh as ''coed'' ("wood").<ref>{{Cite book |last=Coates |first=Richard |title=Celtic Voices, English Places: Studies of the Celtic Impact on Place-Names in Britain |last2=Breeze |first2=Andrew |publisher=Tyas |year=2000 |isbn=1900289415 |location=Stamford}}.</ref>{{rp|278}}<ref>{{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. ''Datchet''.</ref>