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.

Worgan's Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Painswick

Historical Forms

  • Worgans 1839 TA

Etymology

, Worgans 1839TA , named from the local family of Organ ( 1563, 1667, 1758 PR 8 , pp. 2 , 26 , 53 ) .