English: variant spelling of Chetwode, a habitational name
from a place in Buckinghamshire named Chitwood, from Celtic
ced ‘wood’, with the tautological addition of Old English
wudu when the old name was no longer understood.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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