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.

Withywind

Other OS name in the Parish of Sandford

Historical Forms

  • Witheven 1650 Recov

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is Witheven 1650Recov . Probably ' withy fen , ' the modern form being corrupt . Cf. Introd. xxxiv - v .