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.

Lockwood

Major Settlement in the Parish of Almondbury

Historical Forms

  • Locwode 1236–58 YDix,393 1275 WCR 1298 1347 YDxii,96
  • Lockwode 1275 WCR
  • Lockwood 1324,1464 DodsN 1616 FF
  • Lokewod(e) 1379 PT 1462 YDxiii,54 1504 Ipm
  • Lokwud 1421 YDi
  • Lokwod 1504 Ipm
  • Lokwood 1523 FF

Etymology

'Wood near the enclosure', v. loc , wudu .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name