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.

Pennywell Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Elsfield

Historical Forms

Penniwell 1703 BodlMap

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) takes name from Penniwell 1703BodlMap probably a spring at which votive offerings were made .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Sescut Fm

Other OS name

Lyme Hill

Major Settlement

Elsfield