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.

Foster's Wd

Other OS name in the Parish of Verwood

Historical Forms

  • Fosters (Copse) 1846 TA

Etymology

, Fosters (Copse )1846TA , cf. Richard Forestarius 13Cecil , Thomas le Forester 1332 ( Cranborne ) .