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Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Woddhous

Field in the Parish of Stockport

Historical Forms

  • Woddhous 1337 Eyre
  • þe Wodehous 1345 Eyre

Etymology

Woddhous 1337(p), þe Wodehous 1345('house at a wood', v. wudu, hūs).

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name