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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.

Barber Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Rotherham

Etymology

, 1771 M , named from the family of Thomas Barber of Rowley (Db) , connected by marriage with the Greves family of Ecclesfield infra ( cf. 1523 Wheat1 ) .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name