Womenswold
Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox UK place Womenswold is a village and civil parish centred Template:Convert south-east of Canterbury, Kent, England, 1 mile to the east of the A2 road. The parish consists of three hamlets: Womenswold, Woolage Village and Woolage Green.
Historically, Womenswold has been recorded with various spellings, including Wymynswold[1] and Wimlingswold.[2] A further one may be Wymelyngewolde [3]
Originally "Wymelyngewolde", from the combination of the possible personal name of "Wimel" and the Old English "ingas" meaning the "people of" and "wald" as a "forest". Thus Womanswold, or 'Wymelyngewolde', means the "forest of the people of Wimel".
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The church of St, Margaret of Antioch covers all three hamlets, in Womenswold proper rather than the woodland, cereal and pasture fields within its bounds. A small mediaeval building without any side aisles, it is part of the Barham Downs group of churches.
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- ↑ East Bridge Deanery website
- ↑ British History Online
- ↑ Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; National Archives; CP 40 / 629, year 1418; http://aalt.law.uh.edu/H5/CP40no629/aCP40no629fronts/IMG_0043.htm; 4th entry; Robert Nethersole of Wymelyngewolde concerning a land deal in Wotton Derham & Denton