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.
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Woodhouse Down
Woodhouse Down
Other OS name in the Parish of Alveston
Etymology
, 1830 M , named from Woodhouse (122
infra
) , v.
dūn
.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Ridgeway or Rudgeway
Row Earthcott, Earthcott Green
Greenhill
The Grove, Grovesend Fm
Langley
Other OS name
Abbey Lane, Little Abbey
Alveston Down & Alveston Wood
Anger's Fm
Ashfield Fm
Church Fm
Conygre Fm
Dodsmoor
Forty Acre Fm
Hayward's Fm
Kite's Hill
The Lawnes
Pits Hill
Shellards Lane
Whitehouse Fm
Major Settlement
Alveston