Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Wolueton 1286 ChFor

• boscus de Wolueton, Wolueton 1347,1357 ib

• Woluetonwode 1347 ib

• Welleton 1286 ChFor

• Wlfeton 1294 ChFor

• Wolvetone Wode 1346 Sheaf

• boscus de Woluerton' 1347 ChFor

• boscus de Wolleton 1357 ChFor

• Woltonwod(de) 1522 Sheaf

• manor of Wolton, Wolton 1537 Orm2 1534–47 Dugdiv242 1545 Sheaf m16 AOMB397

• manor of Wolton alias Wotton, Wolton alias Wotton 1572,1615,1624 ChRR

• manor of Walton, Walton 1624 ChRR

• Far Wooton Hey & Neere Wooton Hey 1665 Map

• Far Wootton Hay & Near Wootton Hay 1838 TA

• Wooton Heys 1902 Sheaf34

Etymology

'Wulfa's farm', from tūn and an OE  pers.n. Wulfa (Feilitzen 418), probably a short form for OE  Wulfhere which lies behind Woluerton ', with wudu . The fields, which survived down to c.1902, were the vestiges of a manor of the prior of Birkenhead, v. (ge)hæg.