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.

Light Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Fairfield

Historical Forms

  • Lightwood 1772 EnclA

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) , Lightwood 1772EnclA , v. lēoht , wudu .