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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Bencroft Wood
Bencroft Wood
Other OS name in the Parish of Broxbourne
Historical Forms
Bencrofts
c.1840
TA
Etymology
is
Bencrofts
c. 1840
TA
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Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
The Baas and Baas Hill
Other OS name
Broad Riding Wood
Broom Spring
Broxbourne Bury
Broxbourne Mill
Broxbourne Wood
Cold Hall
Grandsire Grove
Stocking Wood
Major Settlement
Broxbourne