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.

Follingworth Ho

Other OS name in the Parish of Birstall

Historical Forms

  • Follingworth 1849 TA

Etymology

, Follingworth 1849TA , probably falding , worð ' enclosure where livestock are folded ' ( cf. Fordingworth f.n. ii , 142 supra , Fallingworth Hall iii , 54 infra ) .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name