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.

Four Want Ways

Other OS name in the Parish of Aldenham

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) . Cf. Four Wantz and The Four Wents (PN Ess 133,21) , a common term for cross - roads , from ME  wente , ' path , ' v. Introd. xxiv .