Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Wooden Cabbage 1811 OS

• Cabbadge 1686 Deed

• caboche 1391 MED

Etymology

Wooden Cabbage Fm (ST 544069), Wooden Cabbage 1811 OS, earlier Cabbadge ('two cows and a horse being in Cabbadge ') 1686Deed , messuage called Cabbidge , messuage called Woods and closes adjoining Cabbidge 1700, assignment of Woods and Cabbidge 1709 both DCMDeed, cf. Cabbage Coppice , Cabbage Fd & Cabbage Plain 1839TA . Perhaps from the word cabbage itself, a word borrowed from OFr and not found in English before the 14th cent. (ME caboche 1391 MED), from the former cultivation of the vegetable here. The first part of the name is apparently a corruption of Woods and , Woods no doubt indicating former ownership by a family called Wood , cf. John de Bosco 1327 SR taxed in (E & W) Chelborough.The name Wooden Cabbage Fm is still found on the 6″ map of 1903, but is simply Wood Farm in 1939 Kelly and Woods Farm according to its nameboard in 1992 (ex inf. P.N. Dawe).