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.
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Wyland Wood
Wyland Wood
Other OS name in the Parish of Brightling
Historical Forms
Wyland
1518–29
ECP
Etymology
( 6 ″ ) is
Wyland
1518–29 ECP .
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
Birchen Wood
Blackbrooks
Hollingrove
Holman's Wood
Perryman's Fm
Scalands Fm
Twelve Oaks
Major Settlement
Brightling