Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Wysselay and Wynberncholth, chase of Wysselay' 1199 CartAnt 1199 Ch 1236 1267 1309 ib

• Wsselay 1199 1233 ib

• Wisceley 1267 ib

Etymology

Wysselay (lost), 'Wysselay and Wynberncholth , chase of Wysselay '1199 CartAnt, 1199 (1236) Ch, 1267 (1309) ib, Wsselay 1199 (1233) ib, Wisceley 1267 ib, from wisc 'marshy meadow' and lēah 'clearing' (a common p.n., v. PN Brk 100). The name always occurs as a 'chase' in association with Wynberncholth , etc as in the first form, and is therefore likely to have been somewhere in the old forest of Holt, v. par. name supra .