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.

Overwood

Field in the Parish of Hartshorne

Historical Forms

1911 SaleCat

Overwood 1662 Derby

Etymology

Overwood(Overwood 1662, v. uferra,wudu)

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Short Hazels

Other OS name

Major Settlement

Hartshorne