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.

Wheatfield Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Shirburn

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is so named 1822 O.S. , cf. Whitfield close c. 1840TA : named from the nearby parish of Wheatfield , the etymology of which is ' white field . '