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.

Woolver's Barn

Early-attested site in the Parish of East Ilsley

Historical Forms

  • (on) wulforan 948 BCS866 c.1240

Etymology

Woolver's Barn; (on ) wulforan 948 (c. 1240) BCS 866 refers to a point just S. of Woolver's Barn in the bounds of Stanmore, v. Pt 3.'Wolf slope', v. wulf , ōra .