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 .