English Place-name Society

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.

Cumberwood

Early-attested site in the Parish of Tirley

Historical Forms

  • to cumbran weorðe 972 BCS1282 10th
  • on cumbre weorðe 11 Finb 14
  • Comberworth 1287 Ass

Etymology

Cumberwood, 1674 PR 14, to cumbran weorðe 972 (10th) BCS 1282, on cumbre weorðe 11 (14) Finb 187, Comberworth 1287Ass . It is at grid point 143–842300. 'Cumbra's enclosure', from the OE  pers.n. Cumbra (cf. Wo 193), v. worð .