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.

Woodhouse

Other OS name in the Parish of Thornton le Moors

Etymology

, cf. Dunham wode 1347ChFor , and Big Wood , Town Wood Field ,Wood Field 1843TA , brode wode 1584AD (Barnes1 359) , v. wudu , hūs , brād .