Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Vergroh 1086 DB, Exon

• Weregrote, Wiregrote 1086 DB

• Wergerod(e) 1202 FF 1244,1288 Ass

• Wergerede 1288 ib

• Wergh(e)rode 1227 FF 1244,1268 Ass

• Wereghrode 1266 FF

• Werwerode 1288 Ass

• Wer(e)grede 1331 Pat 1393 Fine

• Wirgorod 1244 Ass

• Wirgrode 1285 FA

• Wirgrede 1327 SR 1370 DCMDeed 1474 Weld1 1483 MinAcct

• Wyrwode 1280 Ass

• Wirerode 1288 ib

• Wyr(e)gherode 1288 1544 DCMDeed

• Wyrhgherede, Wyrhgherode 1288 Ass

• Wyrede 1314 Pat

• Wyrg(e)red(e) 1316 FA

• Wyrg(e)red(e) iuxta Warham 1326,1327 Ass 1457 Weld1

• Wirgerede 1337 DorR

• Wyreherode 1544 DCMDeed

• Worcherod 1244 Ass

• Wurgrode, Worgrode 1311 Ipm

• Wyrthgrede 1381 DCMDeed

• Wygrete 1412 FA

• Wygrett 1533 ADV

• Wolgrett 1572 Comm

• Wooll gret 1697 DCMCt

• Worgret 1575 Saxton 1773 Bayly

• Worgrett 1795 Boswell

• Wurgrett 1545 DCMDeed

• Wo(o)rgreate 1584 ib

• Wargat c.1586 Tres

Etymology

'The gallows', v. wearg-rōd, as first proposed by Ekwall in Studies1 91, cf. Wareham par. infra ; Ekwall loc. cit. suggested that the hard -g - may have arisen from early misdivision of the compound as wear -grōd . Worgret is one mile W of Wareham on the road to Dorchester. There was a mill here in 1086 DB (VCHDo 376, 95), cf. Stoborough supra .