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.

Wool

Parish in the County of Dorset

Etymology

Wool is in Bindon liberty (v. note under Winfrith hundred supra ); it was a parochial chapelry belonging to Coombe Keynes in 1795 Boswell.

Major Settlements