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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.

Woodhead

Early-attested site in the Parish of Morland

Historical Forms

  • Woodhead Milne 1663 PR
  • Woodhead mill & dam 1699 BdyR
  • boscus de Morland 1232–5 Weth
  • Morland wood 1593 NB

Etymology

Woodhead, 1653, 1656, 1680 PR, 1799EnclA , (Woodhead Milne ) 1663 PR, (Woodhead mill & dam ) 1699BdyR . Named from boscus de Morland 1232–5 Weth, Morland wood 1593 NB 447, v. wudu , hēafod .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site