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.

Pound

Other OS name in the Parish of Woodlands

Etymology

, cf. pounde called the greate pounde , pounde called Rodways pounde 1551Midd , v. pund ; Rodway is a surname , cf. Roddeways copse , John Rodwaye 1551ib , v. copis .