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.

Woodhouse

Other OS name in the Parish of Pontesbury

Historical Forms

  • Wodhouse 1601 ib

Etymology

, 1598et seq PR(H) 1 , Wodhouse 1601 ib . A late - recorded instance of a common name ; the possible significance is discussed in Part 1 and under Woodhall supra . A number of houses are named on 6 ″ :