Woodlands
Major Settlement in the Parish of Woodlands
Historical Forms
- Wodelande 1244 Ass
- La Wodelande 1345 FF
- Wodelaunde 1244 Ass
- la Wodelaunde 1268 ib
- Wodelond(e) 1268,1288 ib
- La Wodelond(e) 1303 FA 1495 Midd
- Woodland(e) 1321 Inqaqd 1664 HTax
- Wodlond 1394 Midd
- Wudlond 1486 Ipm
- Wodelond or Wedelond 1499 ib
- Woodlands 1774 Hutch1
Etymology
'wood land', i.e. perhaps 'wooded estate or tract of land', or 'land cleared for cultivation near or within a wood', v. wudu , land , cf. DEPN for other examples of this common name. The late appearance of the final -s (presumably a pl. form) is to be noted.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Other OS name
- Pit Copse
- Stepping Stones
- Peat's Hill
- Sheepcroft Row
- Whitmore
- Parsonage
- Round Ho
- Well Ho
- Ash Pit
- Bolehays Copse
- Burgess's Fm
- Chalk Pit
- Chapel
- Church Of The Ascension
- David's Cross
- Frome(lost)
- Haythorn Copse
- Ivory Hill Copse
- Ivy Ctg
- Knob's Crook
- Knowlton Church (ruins)
- Lumber Lane
- Martin's Living
- Monmouth's Ash
- New Barn
- Old Down Ctgs
- Park Ho
- Pound
- Wedge Hill
- Woodlands Copse, Woodlands Cmn, & Woodlands (Dairy) Fm
- Woodlands Park
- Yewtree Pit