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.

Wildboars Coppice

Early-attested site in the Parish of Ailsworth

Etymology

Wildboars Coppice (6″) is probably to be associated with the family of Wildbore who held land in various villages in the Soke of Peterborough in the 16th and 17th cent. (cf. VCH ii, 494).

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Major Settlement