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.

Woolley

Early-attested site in the Parish of Silkstone

Historical Forms

  • Ulvelay 1259 Ass

Etymology

Woolley, Ulvelay 1259 Ass, cf. luporum fovea 1108–14 YCh 1485, which is certainly in this township and not Woolley 286supra .'Wolves' forest-glade', v. wulf , lēah .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site