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.

Woolstone

Other OS name in the Parish of Bishop's Tawton

Historical Forms

  • Ulveston 1330 SR
  • Olveston 1333 SR

Etymology

is Ulveston 1330SR (p), Olveston 1333SR (p) . Probably ' Wulf 's farm , ' v. tun , though the absence of w in the early spellings favours rather the ON  Úlfr , the name of some Anglo - Scandinavian settler .