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.

Bullwood Ho

Other OS name in the Parish of Rayleigh

Historical Forms

  • the Bull Woods 1777 C

Etymology

is named from the Bull Woods 1777 C , now Hockley Woods , which owed their name to The Bull public - house on the road to the north .