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.

Wadham Park

Other OS name in the Parish of Hockley

Etymology

( local ) is so called from Wadham College , Oxford , which acquired the advowson of Hockley shortly after 1606 (M i, 289) .