Wortheal (Fm)
Early-attested site in the Parish of Wambrook
Historical Forms
- Worthehale 1244 Ass
- Worthiale 1428 FF
- terr' voc' Worthiall 1550 Midd
- Worthill 1844 TA
Etymology
Wortheal (Fm) (ST 274085), Worthehale 1244Ass , Worthiale 1428 FF, terr ' voc ' Worthiall 1550Midd , Worthill (Plant .) 1844TA , 'nook or hollow with an enclosed farmstead', from worð, worðig and h(e)alh.The final el. may refer to the valley on the E slope of which Wortheal lies, or to its situation in the NW angle or corner of the par. Worthele PN D 274 is identical in origin and meaning.
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
- Hr Allotments Plant. & Lr Allotments Plant.
- Bartletts
- Beerwood Ctg
- Beulah Ctg
- Bewley Down Plant.
- Bickham Wood (Plant.)
- Box Ctg
- Breach Ctg
- Broad Oak
- Brooklands Pit
- Castle Wood Fm & Castle Wood Lane
- Cock-Crowing Stone
- Colemans
- Coombes Fm
- Dearhams Fm
- Dinnett's Fm
- Downlands
- Drake's Fm
- Green Knap Lane & Green Knap Quarry
- Hey Wood
- Home Plant.
- Lancin Fm
- Lilymoor Copse
- Linnington
- Loomcroft
- Mancroft (Plant.)
- Mill Lane
- Money Pit Lane
- Mounter's Hill
- Myrtle Ctg
- New Inn
- New Plant.
- North Hill
- Nursery
- Oatlands Fm
- Palfrey's Lane
- Palmer's Pit
- Old Quarry
- Rectory
- Red Post
- St Mary's Church
- Salt Box
- Saw Pit
- Shaggs Flood
- Shell's Lane
- Smithy
- Spittle Pond
- Stocks
- Wambrook Fm, Hr Wambrook
- Weston Corner Plant.
- Whitehill Plant.