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.

Little Wood

Early-attested site in the Parish of Chettle

Historical Forms

  • littlen wde 935 ShaftR(S429) 15
  • Little Wood (Down) 1839 TA

Etymology

Little Wood (ST 943133), littlen wde 935 (15) ShaftR (S 429), Little Wood (Down )1839TA , 'little wood', v. lȳtel , wudu . The early form occurs in the AS bounds of Tarrant H. par. supra .For other references to woodland in this par., v. foll. and the lost Hida infra .