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.

Swinnow Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Harworth

Historical Forms

boscum de Swnehaga c.1175 Dodsworth 17th

Swinehow Wood 1826 G

Etymology

is boscum de Swnehaga c. 1175 (17th) Dodsworth ,Swinehow Wood 1826 G . ' Swine enclosure , ' v. haga .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement

Harworth