Woad in Place names
Place names in England can give indirect evidence of former woad cultivation, mainly through the older form of the word, ‘wad’.
Wadborough in Worcestershire
Waddon (Dorset and Surrey)
Wadd Ground (Warwickshire)
Waddicar (Lancashire)
Wadland Furlong (Warwickshire)
Woodhill (Wiltshire) appears as Wadhill, “the hill where woad is cultivated”, in the 1086 Domesday Book.)
Odell in Bedfordshire, originally Wodell, from Woad-hill
Glastonbury in Somerset means “place where the woad grows”
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