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.

Nyewoods

Early-attested site in the Parish of Harting

Historical Forms

  • Iwode 1332 Ipm
  • la Nywode 1337 Misc

Etymology

Nyewoods is Iwode 1332 Ipm, la Nywode 1337 Misc. 'New wood,' v. Nyetimber infra 95 and Introd. xv, xxix. For the loss of initial n in the first form, cf. Nunningham infra 481.