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Survey of English Place-Names

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Hollybank Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Ripley

Historical Forms

  • Hollingbank Wood 1840 TA
  • Hollingbank Wood or Robter or Robert's Wood 1767 Comm
  • Robert Woodside 1576 Wheater

Etymology

, Hollingbank Wood 1840TA , Hollingbank Wood or Robter or Robert 's Wood 1767Comm, v. holegn 'holly', banke; the older name was Robert Woodside 1576 Wheater .