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Wallingford town (1990 pop. 40,822), New Haven co., S Conn.; inc. 1670. Its silverware industry dates from c.1835. Fruit growing and the manufacture of plastics, steel, precision instruments, and hardware are among the town's other industries. In Wallingford is the Choate preparatory school for boys, now coordinated with Rosemary Hall, a girls' preparatory school formerly located at Greenwich, Conn. A branch of the Oneida Community was founded in the town in 1851. Lyman Hall was born there.

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Wallingford, UK, USA 1. UK (England): formerly Welingaforda and Walingeford ‘Ford of Walh's People’ from an Old English personal name, ‐inga‐ and ford.2. USA (Connecticut): bought from the Native Americans in 1638, it was originally called East River, but was renamed in 1670 after the Wallingford in England.

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Wallingford Oxon. Welingaforda c.895, Walingeford 1086 (DB). ‘Ford of the family or followers of a man called Wealh’. OE pers. name + -inga- + ford.

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