Woodborough
English
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Etymology
[edit]From Old English widu (“wood”) + beorg (“hill”), with the second element at some point being misanalyzed as burh, giving the modern form borough. Otherwise, the modern form of beorg would have been berry (“mound, hill”), giving something like *Woodberry.
Proper noun
[edit]Woodborough
- A village in Gedling district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK6347).
- A suburb of Winscombe, North Somerset, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST4257). [1]
- A village in Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU1059).
References
[edit]Categories:
- English terms inherited from Old English
- English terms derived from Old English
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Villages in Nottinghamshire, England
- en:Villages in England
- en:Places in Nottinghamshire, England
- en:Places in England
- en:Suburbs in Somerset, England
- en:Places in Somerset, England
- en:Villages in Wiltshire, England
- en:Places in Wiltshire, England