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.

Wolvens Fm

Early-attested site in the Parish of Shere with Gomshall

Historical Forms

  • Fulefenne 1241 Ass 1304 AD
  • Fulfenne 1313 Ass
  • Folefenne 1279 Ass
  • Folvenne 1314 Rental
  • Fulvan 1569 ParReg
  • Stubbyns late Vulvyns t.Eliz ChancP
  • Fulvens 1823 Br
  • Woolvine 1680 Seller
  • Wolvins 1816 O.S.

Etymology

'The foul or muddy fen or marsh,' v. ful , fenn . There is much marshy land here. For the change f > v > w cf. PN D Part I, xxxiv and Wagdon supra 183. For van , v. Introd. xxiii.