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.

Green Wd ( Leg )

Field in the Parish of Compton Abbas

Historical Forms

1842 TA

claus ' voc ' Grenewooddes 1564 Glyn

Etymology

Green Wd(Leg)(claus' voc' Grenewooddes 1564,from grene1, wudu, or a surname, with leg)

Places in the same Parish

Major Settlement

Compton Abbas