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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.

Woolpits Planting

Other OS name in the Parish of Noseley

Historical Forms

  • Wolpits 1467×84 LTD
  • Woolpits 1968 Surv

Etymology

( 2 ½ ″ ) , ( v. planting ) , Wolpits 1467 × 84LTD , Woolpits 1968Surv , cf. Wolpitt Close 1544Hazlerigg , v. wulf , pytt ; alluding to early trapping of wolves , an animal which did not become extinct in England until the Tudor period .