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.

How Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Lorton

Historical Forms

  • the How (a wood) ib.

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is the How (a wood) ib. v. haugr .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site

Major Settlement