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Survey of English Place-Names

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Higher Mainwood & Lower Mainwood

Other OS name in the Parish of Bowdon

Historical Forms

  • Mean(e)wood 1535 Sotheby 1541,1558 Orm2ii775
  • Main Wood 1831 Bry

Etymology

, Mean (e )wood 1535Sotheby , 1541, 1558 Orm2 ii775, Main Wood 1831 Bry , ' commonwood ' , v. (ge)mǣne , wudu , cf. Ringway Woods, Outwood Laneinfra .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site