W-Mawer
Modern Name Original (Mawer) Meaning (Mawer) Notes OS Zone OS Ref
Walbottle æt Walle at the (Roman) wall
NZ 169664
Wall wall (Roman) wall
NY 916689
Walltown wall tun farm on the wall
NY 679664
Walwick wall wic wall building
NY 903705
Warden weard dun watch hill
NY 914664
Wardley Weardan leah Wearda's clearing
NZ 301616
Wardrew Farm ? rhiw ? ascent/hill
NY 641683
Warenford warned ford ford on the Warren
NU 137285
Warenton warned tun farm on the Warren
NU 106304
Wark (ge)weorc fortification
NT 825386
Wark (ge)weorc fortification This may once have been called Carrum; see Carham-on-Tweed. I have assumed that Richard of Hexham was writing about Wark on the Tyne, not Wark on the Twed. NY 860770
Warks Burn weorces burna stream by the fortifications
NY 763755
Warkworth We(o)rces worð We(o)rce's enclosure
NU 246061
Warton *Wær(a) tun *Wæra's farm
NU 007028
Washington Village Wassan tun Wassa's farm
NZ 309565
Weardale Forest


NY 823424
Weetwood Hall wæta wudu wet wood
NU 017297
Weldon wielle denu spring valley
NZ 137985
Welton wealtan denu Wealta's valley
NZ 060675
West Bitchfield bece feld beech field Only West B remains as a name. NZ 090770
Whalton Hwala(n) tun Hwala's farm
NZ 129814
Whickham cwic hege ham homestead with the quickset hedge
NZ 205613
Whitburn hwit burna white stream
NZ 407623
Whitfield hwit feld white enenclosed land
NY 777584
Whitley Bay hwit leage white clearing
NZ 357716
Whitley Mill hwit leah white clearing
NY 925581
Whittingham Hwiting(a) ham farmstead of the sons of Hwita
NU 069119
Whitton hwit tun white farm
NU 057012
Whorlton Hall hvirfill tun farm by the rounded hill
NZ 186685
Widdrington *Wudu-/Widuheres tun the farm of Wudu-/Widu-here
NZ 255959
Winlaton Winelaces tun Winelac's farm
NZ 175624
Woodburnhill wudu burna stream by the wood
NY 913868
Wooden Farm Wulfes dun Wulf's hill
NU 234096
Woodhorn wudu horn corner of land by the wood
NZ 295889
Wooler Wulfofer Wolf's bank or wolf bank
NT 992282
Wooperton Wepre denu valley of the well watered hill
NU 040203
Wrakendike ? dic somebody's dike
NZ 302608
Wydon wid denu wide valley
NY 690630
Wylam Wilan ham Wila's homestead
NZ 115646