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.

Owley Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Weaverham

Historical Forms

  • Roughs 1842 OS

Etymology

, Roughs 1842 OS , cf. Rough Field ,Rough Land & Rough Meadow , and Owlet Field 1839TA , v. rūh , owlet ' little owl ' .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site