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.

Dean's Wood

Early-attested site in the Parish of Ombersley

Etymology

In a fine of 1275 and in the Assize Roll of the same year we have a family taking their name from la Dene . Either the wood takes its name from this dene itself, when the s is pseudo- manorial, or it is named from that family. The wood lies at the south end of a small valley.