The Forehead
Early-attested site in the Parish of Stratfield Mortimer
Historical Forms
- Forewode 1305 Ipm
- Le Forewode 15th VCHiii,422
- Le Forwood, Forewood 1552 LRMB
- Four Heads 1761 Rocque
- Forward 1817 OS
- The Forehead 1846 Snare
Etymology
The Forehead, Forewode 1305 Ipm, Le Forewode 15th VCH iii, 422, Le Forwood , Forewood 1552LRMB , Four Heads 1761 Rocque, Forward 1817 OS, The Forehead 1846 Snare, '(land) in front of the wood', v. fore , wudu , and cf. Wa 243–4, where three other examples of the name are cited.
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
- Abbeycroft
- Admiral's Copse
- Black's Hole
- Boundary Pond
- Briar Lea
- Bridge's Fm
- Butler's Lands Fm
- Church Fm
- College Piece
- Drury Lane
- Fair Ground
- Five Oaken
- Furze Ground
- Gibbet Piece
- Great Park Fm, Great Park Copse, Little Park Fm
- Headlands Fm
- Hill Fm
- Hogs Plat
- Holdens Firs
- Home Wood
- Knotmead
- Ladyfield Copse
- Little Copse
- Lockram Brook, Lockram Fm, Lockram Rd
- Long Moor
- Love's Allotment
- Lukin's Wood
- Mann's Fm
- Monkton Copse
- Mortimer Common
- Mortimerhill
- Mortimer Ho, Mortimer Land, Mortimer Lodge
- Mowbray's Piece
- New Mow Mead
- Nightingale Lane
- Perren's Fm
- Pitfield Lane
- Pitt Lane Fm
- Smith's Copse
- Spratley's Barn
- Stanmore
- Starvehill Plantation
- Stephen's Firs
- Tanhouse Bridge
- Ticklecorner Lane
- Totterdown Hill
- Tun Bridge
- Warrenneswood Ho
- Wheat's Fm
- Windmill Common