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.

Sir John's Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Belvoir

Etymology

was named from the Rev . Sir John Thoroton , incumbent of Bottesford and friend and domestic chaplain to the fifth Duke of Rutland . He died in 1820 . He was knighted by George IV when Prince Regent and supervised the remodelling of Belvoir into the shape of a medieval castle ( work completed c. 1830 ) after the death of the architect James Wyatt in 1813 .