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.

Monks Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Woodford

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is Muncke Wood ( d ) in 1582 ( Essex Naturalist v , 177 ) . It belonged to the Abbot of Stratford . Cf. Monkhams supra 110 .

Places in the same Parish

Major Settlement