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.

Woodend Fm

Early-attested site in the Parish of Wichenford

Etymology

There was a Peter de Bosco here in 1275 and Habington (i, 503) quotes a deed of 1471 relating to the Manor of Woodhend . Nash calls the farm 'the Wooden farm' (ii. 458).