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.

Keen Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Heversham

Historical Forms

  • Ke(e)ne 1649,1657 PR

Etymology

, named from the family of William or Edward Ke (e )ne 1649, 1657 PR 159, 163 .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site