English Place-name Society

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.

Homewood

Other OS name in the Parish of Send with Ripley

Historical Forms

  • greate, litle home wood t.Hy8 MinAcct
  • Holme Wood 1544 LP

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is greate , litle home wood t. Hy 8MinAcct ,Holme Wood 1544 LP . The first spelling is no doubt the correct one , cf. Holmwood infra 271 .