English Place-name Society

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.

Woolbeding

Major Settlement in the Parish of Woolbeding

Historical Forms

  • Welbedlinge 1086 DB
  • Wolbedding' 1191 P
  • Wolbeddyng c.1275 Ipm
  • Wolbeding' 1203 Cur 1262 Ass 1417 IpmR
  • Wolbedinge 1210–2 RBE 1318 Ipm 1641 SRS5
  • Wolbedyngge c.1275 Ipm
  • Wolbedyngg 1309 Cl 1319 Ipm
  • Wolbedynge 1316,1324 Ipm 1337 Misc
  • Wolbedyng 1327 SR 1331 1332 SR 1354 Ipm
  • Wlbeding' 1212 Fees72 1244 Fees
  • Wulfbeding c.1230 SelborneCharters
  • Wlbetinges 1248 Fees
  • Wulbedingg c.1275 Ipm
  • Wulbedynge 1296 SR 1381 IpmR
  • Woulbedyng 1535 VE
  • Ulbeding 1579 MarC
  • Woolbedding 1633 Recov 1686 MarC
  • Wylbeding 1279 Ass
  • Walbedyng 1428 FA

Etymology

OE  Wulfbǣdingas , 'people of one Wulfbæd ,'v. PN in -ing 64.There is a curious scarcity of forms with final s .

Places in the same Parish