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.

Farwood Barton

Early-attested site in the Parish of Colyton

Historical Forms

  • Forohoda 1086 DB(Exon)
  • Forhode
  • Forwud' 1186–90 HMCiv
  • Forewod(e) 1199 FF 1242 Fees773
  • Forewde 1275 RH

Etymology

The meaning would have been 'before (in front of) the wood,' but there is little or no woodland left in this part now.