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.

Backreed Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Wiston

Historical Forms

  • Beggred 1641 SRS14,163

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is Beggred in 1641 (SRS 14, 163) . For the second element , v. Inchreed infra 378 .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement