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.

The Island

Other OS name in the Parish of Featherstone

Historical Forms

  • Whitwood Island 1804 EnclA

Etymology

, Whitwood Island 1804EnclA , the land within an old loop of the Calder now detached from the township .