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.

Astwood

Early-attested site in the Parish of North Claines

Historical Forms

Estwode 1182 RBB 18th

Astwode in Wyston 1392 Pat

Etymology

'East' wood, probably in relation to Wyston or Whitstones itself, v. infra 115.

Places in the same Parish