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.
Survey of English place-names
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The Wilderness
The Wilderness
Other OS name in the Parish of Bayford
Historical Forms
Wilderness
c.1840
TA
Etymology
( 6 ″ ) is
Wilderness
c. 1840
TA
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Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Gravefield Grove
Bayford Wood
Other OS name
Ashen Grove
Bayfordbury
Blackfan Fm
Broadgreen Wood
Claypits
Eve's Lot
Warren Ho
Weepings Wood
Major Settlement
Bayford