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.

Woodhead

Other OS name in the Parish of Kirkby Lonsdale

Historical Forms

  • le Woodheade 1631 Kendii,432

Etymology

, 1770M , le Woodheade 1631 Kend ii, 432 , ' top of the wood ' , v. wudu , hēafod .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site