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.

Woolford's Corner

Other OS name in the Parish of Wickwar

Historical Forms

  • atte Cornere 1327 SR

Etymology

, 1830 M , atte Cornere 1327SR (p) , v. corner ( here denoting a sharp bend in a road ) , cf. Rengerys corner (infra ) ; Woolford is doubtless a surname from Woolford's (16supra ) .