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.

Westwood Coppice & Westwood Withy Bed

Other OS name in the Parish of Toller Porcorum

Historical Forms

  • Westwode 1308 Ipm
  • Little Westwood 1564,1586 Hutch3
  • Westwoods Copse & Westwoods Withy Bed 1843 TA

Etymology

, Westwode 1308 Ipm, Little Westwood 1564, 1586 Hutch3, Westwoods Copse & Westwoods Withy Bed 1843TA , ' west wood ' , v. west , wudu , from its situation W of Wynford Wood in Wynford E . par . infra , cf . ' the wood of Sevenyngetolre '1300 Hutch1 , Littlewood 1703Mont .