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.

Norwell Woodhouse

Major Settlement in the Parish of Norwell Woodhouse

Historical Forms

  • Northwelle Wodehouse 1300 Misc
  • Wodehouses by Northwell 1310 Ch
  • le Wodhouse juxta Northwell 1327 Ass
  • Northwell Wod(e)hous 1330 1356 FF
  • Wodehouses juxta Northwell 1349 ib

Etymology

For Woodhouse, v. Holbeck Woodhouse supra 84.

Places in the same Parish

None