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.

Wildeneweye

Field in the Parish of Sapperton

Historical Forms

Wildeneweye 1250–60 Spillm

Etymology

Wildeneweye(probably an error for Vildeneweye,'road of thedwellers in the open country', v. filde2, weg, cf. Fielden Way 16 supra).

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement

Sapperton