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.

Picketts Wd

Field in the Parish of Melbury Osmond

Historical Forms

1838 TA

Piketteswode 1322 CottCh

Etymology

Picketts Wd(Piketteswode 1322, v. wudu,cf. John Picot 1243, Annesley's Plant(6″) and the f.n. Cases Orchd supra)

Places in the same Parish

Major Settlement

Melbury Osmond