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.

Wolfawell

Field in the Parish of Theddingworth

Historical Forms

  • Wolfawell Edw2 Dugd

Etymology

Wolfawell Edw 2 (v. wella; prob. with the OE   masc. pers. n. Wulfa, OE   wulf (gen. pl. wulfa) being very unlikely in compound with a spring stream name, in which pers. ns. are common).