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.

Britton Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Woodthorpe

Historical Forms

  • Brittons Wood 1840 ib

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) , Brittons Wood 1840 ib , cf. William le Breton de Wodethorp Ed 1Kniveton , whose family long held land in the area .