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Survey of English Place-Names

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Youlden Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Hartland

Historical Forms

  • Yholdedun 1238 FF

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is Yholdedun 1238 FF , ' old hill , ' v. dun . ' Old ' may have the sense of ' long undercultivation , ' cf. Addenda supra lviii .