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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.

Writh Md

Field in the Parish of Stoke Wake

Historical Forms

  • 1839 TA
  • le Fryth ' 1415 Seymer 1497 Seymer
  • le Frith ( e ) 1416 Seymer 1418 Seymer 1423 Seymer
  • Frith Mead 1640 Seymer
  • Frithwood Close 1640 Seymer

Etymology

Writh Md(le Fryth' 1415, 1497, le Frith(e) 1416, 1418, 1423, Frith Mead,Frithwood Close 1640, v. fyrhð'wood'; for the development to w, cf. PN Dxxxv).