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.
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Homer's Wood
Homer's Wood
Other OS name in the Parish of Welwyn
Historical Forms
Holmoor Wood
c.1840
TA
Etymology
( 6 ″ ) is
Holmoor
Wood
c. 1840
TA
, v.
holh
,
mor
.
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
Blooming Tilts, Cave Wood, Danesbury, Gun Fm, Legs and Stockings Wood, Malms Wood, Oldend Wood, Robbery Bottom Wood, Roundabout Plantation, Stockings Spring and Whitehill Fm
Mardley Heath
Ninning's Wood
Rosecroft Wood
Dellcroft Wood
Early-attested site
Lockleys
Mardleybury
Woolmer Green
Major Settlement
Welwyn
