Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Wyhtehalle 1283 Wigorn

• Witho Chapel 1577 Saxton

• Withall, Withall Heath 1650 Surv 1672 D

• Withorn Chapel 1763 Bowen

Etymology

In addition to the above forms we should perhaps include the unidentified Warthuil , a DB berewick of Bromsgrove. As Wythall was a chapelry of Bromsgrove (cf. Round in VCH i. 285), and as the geographical distribution of the definitely identifiable berewicks of Bromsgrove suggests that it is not so far from Lindsworth on the one side and Wythwood and Houndsfield on the other, it may well be that the two places are identical. If so, it is very difficult to suggest an etymology at all. The forms, apart from DB, are scanty, late and not entirely consistent with one another, and it may be that DB, apparently so corrupt, is nearer the true form, whatever that may have been. It should be added that the topography makes it unlikely that the DB suffix -huil is for -hull .