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.

Wormsworthy Cottage

Other OS name in the Parish of Stoodleigh

Historical Forms

  • Wolmysworthi 1333 SR

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is Wolmysworthi 1333SR (p) . v. worþig . The first element is clearly a pers. name , probably either Wulfhelm or Wulfmǣr . If the latter , the usual abbreviation comma has been omitted before the y .