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.

Whitewalls

Other OS name in the Parish of Woolaston

Historical Forms

  • of hwitan heale 956 BCS927 12th Grundy

Etymology

, 1713GR 892 , possibly an adaptation of of hwitan heale 956 (12th) BCS 927 (Grundy242) , ' the white nook of land ' , v. hwīt , halh .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement