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.

Ware's Copse

Other OS name in the Parish of Stockwood

Historical Forms

  • Wares Coppice & Wares Mead, Wares Cowleaze, Wears Cowleaze 1839 TA

Etymology

, Wares Coppice & Wares Mead , Wares Cowleaze , Wears Cowleaze 1839TA , cf. Thomas Warre 1418, 1420Weld 1 , Bartholomew Warre 1427Weld 1 , 1 p 'cell subbosci vend ' Joh 'i Ware 1435Weld 1 , Richard Warr 1481 , John Warre , William Warre 1635 Hutch3 .