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.

Norwood Ho, Norwood Park and Norwood Fields

Early-attested site in the Parish of Southwell

Etymology

Norwood Ho, Norwood Park and Norwood Fields. Cf. Nordwode 1275 RH, Nortwode 15thWhiteBk , Northwood t. Hy 8MinAcct , park of Norwodd 1550 Pat, Norwood feilde 1584EcclComm , Norwood Nooke 1706 ib. Norwood was the most northerly of the Archbishop of York's parks within the manor of Southwell. For nooke , v. infra 288.