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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.

Worboise Works

Other OS name in the Parish of Witton Chapelry & Weaverham

Etymology

, v. works , cf. Warburs Eye 1844TA , probably ' St Warburgh's island ' , from ēg and the OE  fem.pers.n. Wǣrburg , the name of the patron - saint of Chester abbey , which owned half of Winnington , cf. Orm2 ii200, 202 .