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.

Woodsetts

Major Settlement in the Parish of Anston

Historical Forms

  • Wodesete 1324,1373 Ipm
  • Wodesetes 1355 MinAcct 1399 YDvii 1439 Pat
  • Wodecestes 1379 PT
  • Wodesetts 1496 YDviii
  • Woddesettes 1403 YDxii,294
  • Wodsettys, Wodsettes 1521 FF 1567 NCWills
  • Woodsettys 1541 FF
  • Woodseets 1641 Rates
  • Woodsetts 1771 M

Etymology

'Folds in the wood', v. wudu , (ge)set, and cf. Woodseats 241, 249infra .