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.
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Home Wood
Home Wood
Other OS name in the Parish of Essendon
Historical Forms
Homewode
1461
Cecil
Etymology
is
Homewode
1461
Cecil
. Cf. Whomerley
supra
225 .
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Bedwell Park
Hornbeam Lane
Other OS name
Backhouse Wood
Bath Wood, Long Wood and Panthers Wood
Cucumber Hall
Deeve Wood
Essendon Bury
The Furse Field
Hoppetts Wood
Nine Acre Wood
Ox Wood
West End
Major Settlement
Essendon