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Whinstone Pool & Whinstone Rocks

Other OS name in the Parish of Oldbury upon Severn

Historical Forms

  • le Rocke voc' Wyncheston, fund' voc' Wynston' 1497 AOMB

Etymology

( 1830 M ) , le Rocke voc ' Wyncheston , fund ' voc 'Wynston '1497AOMB , v. roke , stān ; the first el . may be , according to Professor Löfvenberg , an OE  pers.n. Winic or the ME  bynameWinch ( Reaney 356 ) ; the rocks are in the Severn near the navigable channel .