Queen's Oak
Early-attested site in the Parish of Yardley Gobion
Historical Forms
- le Queneherberhok 1349 For
Etymology
Queen's Oak is perhaps identical with le Queneherberhok 1349For . Cf. also the Queen 's close in Yardley 1454 ECP. herber is presumably the ME herber , 'shelter.' Queen's Oak is the oak under which, according to tradition, Edward of York, afterwards Edward IV, first met Elizabeth Woodville (VCH i, 62), the Woodvilles being lords of the neighbouring manor of Grafton supra 99.