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.

Brook Wood

Early-attested site in the Parish of Penn

Etymology

This is Brock Wood in the earliest ed. of the i-in. map and as there is no conspicuous brook here and there may well have been badgers the modern form is probably corrupt.

Places in the same Parish