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Survey of English Place-Names

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Woodhill Coppice

Other OS name in the Parish of Church Knowle

Historical Forms

  • Woodle 1844 TA

Etymology

, Woodle 1844TA , cf. Woodedols 1580Mansel which may also belong here , possibly the same name as Wadhill Coppice supra ( only 300 yds . distant ) , cf. the development of Woodhill W 267 which contains wād , but the first el . may be wudu ' wood ' .