Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Wodehuse, Wodehusu' 1086 DB

• Wodehuses 1175–90 YCh1026

• Wudehusum 12 YDiii 13 Kirkst 1310 Ch

• Wdehusum e.13 Nost83d

• Wod(e)husem 1284 Baild

• Wod(e)usum 1290 Ch

• Wod(e)housum l.13 Kirkst

• Wod(e)(h)usom 1303 Aid 1327 SR

• Wod(e)hosum 1343 YDiii

• Wod(e)hosom 1379 PT 1423 YDii

• Wodehus(e) 1202–7,1240–9 YDiii Hy3 Kirkst 1284 Vyner

• Wdehuse 1226 Kirkst

• Wodhouse 1303 KF

• Wodesum 1268 FF

• Wodesome 1378 Baild

• Wooddeshom 1285 KI

• Wothersome 1540 Testvi 1641 Rates

• Woddersome 1546 LS 1549 WillY

Etymology

'(At) the houses in the wood', v. wudu , hūs , -um . On the shifting of the secondary stress to the dat.pl. ending -um in this name, Woodsome ii, 268 and Gildersome iii, 223supra , cf. Ritter 145 and LMS i, 51–2.