Snip Wood
Early-attested site in the Parish of Lavendon
Historical Forms
- Snypwode 1328 Cl
Etymology
Probably 'snipe-wood' though it stands on rather high ground to take its name from that bird. If it is the ordinary word snip that word goes back some 200 years earlier than the examples given in the NED and there is the possible further difficulty that the early forms of that word are spelled snippe .