Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Warmundestrou Hd' 1086 DB
• Warmondstrow 1086 IpmR 1380
• hundred' de Wich Malbanc', hundred' de Wich Maubanc 1260 Court
• Brunhala 1086 DB 1175 Facs
• Bromhale 1096–1101(1280),1150 Chester
• Bromhal(a) p.1266 Chest
• Bromale 1308 AD 1475 Chol
• Bromale iuxta Cowel 1328 Plea
• Bromale iuxta Sonde 1348 AddCh
• Bromale iuxta Batynton 1475 Chol
• Brumhale 1260 Court
• Bromhall 1303 Chamb 1334 VR 1389 ChRR 1623 Sheaf 1882 Orm2
• Bromall 1400 Pat 1463 Plea
• Bromhull 1348 ChRR
• Bromehale 1355 BPR 1463 ChRR 1480 AD 1486 AddCh
• Bromeale 1379 Orm2
• Bromehall 1379 ChRR 1574 1454 Chol 1514 ChRR 1552 Sheaf 1623
• Broomhull 1389 ChRR
• Bromhole 1391 Pat
• Broomhall 1462,1508 ChRR
• Broomhall Heath 1831 Bry
• Broomall Green 1695 Chol
• Bromold c.1536 Leland
• Aston iuxta Bromham 1554 Pat
• Myckeley 1558,1580 AddCh
• Myckley, Myckley in Wrenbury 1565 ib
• Mickley 1590 Sheaf
• the hall of Mickley 1621 Orm2 1656
• de Schesewis 1352 Chol
• Mickley Chesewys 1353 Eyre
• Mickley Chesewis 1421 ChRR
• Mickley Chesewyce 1375 Eyre
• Mickley Cheswys 1410 Chol 1434 ChRR 1512 ChEx
• Mickley Chesewis 1468 ChRR
• Mickley Cheswise 1515 ChEx
• Cheswes 1558 AddCh
• Mickley Cheswycs 1443 ChRR
• Mickley Chessewis 1410 Chol
• Coronerage 1831 Bry
• The Devil's Nest 1831 ib
• Haytle 1599 ChRR
• Oak 1718 Sheaf
• The Oak 1831 Bry
• Pritch 1831 ib
• Cerlere 1086 DB
• Cherlegh 1307 Plea 1342 ChRR 1438 Chol 1371
• Cherle 1308 Ipm 1310 Cl
• Cherley 1398 ChRR
• Chorleg' 1280 P
• Chorlegh 1305 Chol freqfrom1398 ChRR
• Chorleye, Chorlegh iuxta Wrennebur' 1307 Plea
• Chorley iuxta Badleigh 1379 ChRR 1574
• Chorley Badiley 1419 Plea
• Chorley ioust Cholmeley 1410 Chol
• Chorley negh Wrenbury, Chorley neere Wrenbury 1508,1599 ib
• Chorley Grene 1454 ib
• Chorley Green 1732 ib
• Chorley Hall 1831 Bry
• Chorley Green Farm 1841 TA
• Jorley 1404 Chol
• Corley c.1550 Surv
• Chourley 1579 Orm2
• Cholley 1702 Cre
• Charley 1703 Chol
• Chawley 1704 Chol
• the Brookhouse tenement 1686 Chol
• Chorley Stock tenement 1732 Chol
• Rowe Grounds 1831 ib
• Rowes Ground 1842 OS
• Rowes Ground & Field 1841 TA
• Horstone Farm, Higher Horstone Croft & Lower Horstone Croft 1786 Chol
• Wood Barn 1831 Bry
• the Bakehouse Fd & the Bakehouse croft 1750
• Barcroft Lane 1693, 1831
• The Higher Bar Croft & Lower Bar Croft 1750
• magnum pratum 1447
• le grete medowe 1454
• the greate meadowe 1637
• Chorley meadow 1670
• Black Acre 1717
• the blacke acre 1638
• the Brook Fd 1750
• Bulls Yard 1733
• Burley Fe(e)ilds 1648, 1717
• the Bigg Burley field 1717
• the Butty Mdw 1700
• the Butty medow 1693
• the Booty Meadow 1749, 1767
• heya de Cherlegh 1371
• Chorlegh Hay 1496
• Chorleyhey(e) 1454, 1479, 1508, 1518
• Chorley Hay(e) 1515, 1536
• Chorley Hays 1724
• Chorley Heyes 1727, 1754
• the Clay Fd 1714
• the farther Cow Field & the nearer Cow Field 1786
• Crounks Moore 1703
• Cronks Moor 1733
• the Cross(e) Flat(t) 1700, 1767
• the three Yardleyes 1637
• the three yard leyes 1639
• the Glade Fd 1733
• Great Green Fd & Little Green Fd 1786
• Green Feild 1700
• the Half Acre 1750
• Hand Fd 1733
• þe Han'feld 1559
• the Hamfelde 1601
• The Higher Harry's Croft & the Lower Harry's Croft 1750
• Harry Crofte 1536
• Big Harthill & Little Harthill 1733
• the Intake 1724
• Intack 1710
• the Higher Intacks & the Lower Intacks 1786
• lighthollers 1467
• the little light Owlers 1637
• the two light Wollers 1717
• the Long Mdw 1733
• the Middle Fd 1732
• Netlewode 1371
• Netlewood 1581
• Netlewood(es) 1627
• Netteleswode 1433
• Netilwode 1454
• Netillwode 1475
• Netelwode 1508
• Nettle Wood 1690
• Nettle Wood Lane 1710
• Farther Nettlewood, Higher Nettlewood, Lower Nettlewood 1732
• New Croft Meadow 1693
• Odd Croft 1788
• Pollett's Croft 1733
• the Pole 1454
• the Riddes 1637
• the Sandye Flatt 1639
• the townefeld 1566
• the townefilde 1592
• the townefield(medow) 1693, 1710
• þe Downefeld 1468
• Townfields, Townfield Meadow 1733
• The Town Meadow 1750
• Walls Hill 1700
• Ware feild 1693
• Well Bank 1788
• Well Medow 1693
• Well Feild 1700
• Whitchurch Fd 1732
• the Higher Whitchurch Fd 1683
• the Boure 1385 (1619)
• Cokshotte 1454
• Kokshote glade 1528
• Duffehouse Crofte 1454
• Maukins orchard 1639
• the Spooners Hay, the Spooners hey 1638, 1639
• Wodecot(e) c.1205 E1 AddCh 1569 AddCh
• Wodecote iuxta Wrenbury 1377 Orm2
• Wod(e)co(o)tehill(e) 1515 MinAcct, Orm2, 1521 ChRR, Orm2
• Wudecote 1289 Court
• Woodcoke 1570 Cre
• Woodcoate alias Wooddcote 1599 Orm2
• Woodcott 1602 ChRR
• Woodcott Hill 1609 Sheaf
• Woodcock hill 1708 ib
• the lande in Ambelbary, Amblebury ground 1685 Sheaf
• Wrenbury cum Frith 1708 Sheaf
• Wareneberie 1086 DB
• Wrennebury 1230 1330 ChF 1284 Plea 1510
• Wrenneburge 1331 Dugd
• Wrenebur(y) c.1327(p),1328 Chol
• Wreneber' 1488 ib
• Wrenbury 1327 Pat
• Wrenbury Mill 1831 Bry
• Wreynbery 1404 Chol
• Wenbyri c.1536 Leland
• Wrembury 1554 Pat
• Rhenbury 1674 Dep
• Renbury 1697 Sheaf 1698 Wil
• Tereth 1086 DB
• Wrennebury Fryth' 1340 Eyre 1380 ib
• Wrenburifrith 1441 Chol
• Wrenbury Fryth 1534 ib
• Wrenbury Frieth 1597 Orm2
• Wrenbury Frith 1625 Sheaf 1842 OS
• Wrenburie Frith 1640 Sheaf
• le Fryth 1408 ChRR
• (the) Frith 1646 Sheaf 1682 Chol 1708 Sheaf
• Frith Lane 1708 ib
• Frith Farm & Frith Hall 1831 Bry 1842 OS
• Malvon-Frythe 1556–7 ChRR 1585
• Malbon Frythe 1557 Tab
• Wrenbury Frith 1842 OS
• Leaneacre 1560 Sheaf
• Lean Acres 1831 Bry
• Wrenbury Hill Gorse 1831 ib
• Potters Hill 1831 ib
• Porters Hall 1842 OS
• graungia vocata Shefforde Graunge 1547 MinAcct
• the hall of Wrenbury 1621 Orm2 1656
• Wrenbury Wood 1842 OS
• Wrenbury Wood Farms 1831 Bry
• Hulsefeld 1569
• a parke 1536
• Wrenbury Park(e) 1558, 1568
• Allockefeild 1569

Etymology

'The hundred of Wǣrmund's tree', later 'of Nantwich', from the OE  pers.n. Wǣrmund , which may appear also in Warmingham 2262, and trēow.