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.

Glen Workhouse

Field in the Parish of Wistow

Historical Forms

  • 1969 Surv

Etymology

Glen Workhouse (v. workhouse; land once providing rental for the workhouse which was established (1802 – 3) in neighbouring Great Glen for 14 persons)