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.
Survey of English place-names
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Birch Wood
Birch Wood
Other OS name in the Parish of Brendon
Historical Forms
Birche Wood
1563
DuCo
Etymology
( 6 ″ ) is
Birche
Wood
1563
DuCo
.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Straypark Corner
Badgworthy Cottage and Hill
Leeford
Cheriton
Lank Combe
Other OS name
Brendon Common
Cliff Wood
Cranscombe
Farley
Hoccombe
Malmsmead
Scob Hill
Shilstone
Slocombeslade
Tippacott
Waterlet Linhay
Major Settlement
Brendon