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.

St John's Wood, Temple Farm

Early-attested site in the Parish of Chipping Wycombe

Etymology

Both these names are relics of the manor held from 1227 (Ch) in Wycombe by the Knights Templars, whose property on the suppression of the order was transferred to the Knights of St John.