Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Wennland 833 ShaftR(S277) 14

• (æt) Wonlonde 843 ASCharters 843 BCS739

• Winlande 1086 DB

• Winlanda Exon

• Wineland 1212 P

• Wynlond(') 1288 Ass

• Wunlanda 1170,1171 P

• Wunland(e) 1231 FF

• Wuland' 1212 Fees

• Wullond(') e16 Prideaux 1535 VE 1540 Prideaux

• Wollond(e) 1268,1288 Ass 1317 MiltC 1384 Prideaux e16 MiltRoll 1385 DCM e15 1480

• Wolland(e) 1531 AD 1539 Prideaux 1575 Saxton

• Wllonde 1280 Winch

• Woulond(e) 1285 FA 1311 Pat e16 Prideaux

• Woullond 1535 VE

• Woodland (sic) 1664 HTax

Etymology

'Meadow land, i.e. cultivated land consisting largely of meadow', from winn1 , wynn and land , as suggested by Kökeritz 131. The Anglo-Saxon bounds of Woolland are given in S 277 (v. C. Hart in DoNHAS 86 158–9), and the bounds of Woolland are also described in 1385 (e15) MiltRoll (repeated in 1384 (e16) Prideaux ) when it was included in the manor of Milton Abbas.