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Survey of English Place-Names

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Barrow Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Writtle

Historical Forms

  • forest of Berewe 1323 For
  • Barowe 1400 EASxix

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is forest of Berewe 1323For , Barowe 1400 EAS xix . v. beorg and Bedeman'sBerg supra 278 .