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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Park Wood
Park Wood
Other OS name in the Parish of Caunton
Historical Forms
boscus de Caunton
15th
WhiteBk
Etymology
is perhaps
boscus
de
Caunton
15th
WhiteBk
.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Middlethorpe
Knapthorpe
Besthorpe Hall
Earlshaw Ho
Newbottles Plantation
Other OS name
Brunk Wood
Dean Hall
Readyfield Fm
Worner Wood
Major Settlement
Caunton