Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Aleoude 1086 DB

• Ailewud 1222 ClR

• Ayl(e)wo(o)d(e) 1409 Hutch3 1423 Midd 1426 Hutch3 1435 Midd 1811 OS

• Aylethewode 1304 Ipm 1305 Cl

• Aileworth 1585 Hutch3

• Aylywood c.1586 Tres

• Arlwood Farm (sic) 1844 TA

• Aileveswode hundret c.1086 GeldR

Etymology

'Æðelgifu's wood', from the OE  fem. pers.n. Æðelgifu and wudu, as the form Aileveswode hundret c. 1086 GeldR cited for Rowbarrow hundred supra shows in spite of the analogical gen. -s , v. -es 2 . Later forms show confusion or alternation with the OE  fem. pers.n. Æðelgȳð . For both pers.ns., the first of which occurs in independent use in DB as Ailueua , the tenant TRE of three virgates in Morden par. infra , v. Feilitzen 183, and for AN loss of intervocalic ð in Æðel -, reduction of -gifu , and loss of w in -wudu , v. Feilitzen 76, 102, 260.