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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Birchen Wood
Birchen Wood
Other OS name in the Parish of Brightling
Historical Forms
Berchenwode
1336
BM
Etymology
( 6 ″ ) is
Berchenwode
1336BM . v.
biercen
.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Darwell Hole
Oldhole
Perryfield Wood
Purchase Wood
Rounden Wood
Socknersh Manor
Willingford
Other OS name
Ashen Wood
Barn House
Blackbrooks
Hollingrove
Holman's Wood
Perryman's Fm
Scalands Fm
Twelve Oaks
Wyland Wood
Major Settlement
Brightling