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Old Head Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Grafton Underwood

Etymology

is so named in 1823 B , and nearby are also marked Wold Coppice and Warkton Wold . The meaning may have been ' wood at the head or end of the “ wold , ” ' v. Old supra 128 .

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