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.

Spring Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Kirkby Malzeard

Historical Forms

  • the Springe 1540 Fount

Etymology

, 1861 O.S. , the Springe ('a close with myche shrubbywood') 1540 Fount , v. spring ' plantation ' .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site