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.

Bowels Wood

Early-attested site in the Parish of Bromham

Etymology

As this wood is on the border of Stagsden parish, in which Joh. de Boeles held two virgates of land in 1242–3 (Fees 885), it doubtless takes its name from that family. There was a Bowels manor in Bromham (VCH iii. 46), but no holding of the family is known in Bromham itself.

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Major Settlement