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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Nassaborough Hundred
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West Wood
West Wood
Other OS name in the Parish of Thornhaugh
Historical Forms
boscus de Westwode
13th
PeterbA
Etymology
( 6 ″ ) is
boscus
de
Westwode
13th
PeterbA
.
Places in the same Parish
Major Settlement
Thornhaugh
Early-attested site
Sibberton Lodge
Other OS name
Abbot's Wood
Bedford Purlieus
Cocker Wood
Cook's Hole
Pebblegate Sale
St John's Wood Fm