Woodbury

Woodbury, Ringwood Hundred
hundred:
county:

Ringwood Hundred
Hampshire

refce: Coates 1989

Woodbury
otherwise: Wobbury, 1303; Wopbury, 1311; Wopabury, 1330; Wobury, 1586

refce: Coates 1989
WOODBURY, tithing of Romsey
First element obscure; second Old English 'burh'='fort, manor' or its Middle English derivative. Gover points to the word/name 'wopbincg' in some Anglo Saxon period charter bounds of East Meon.

   Old Hampshire Gazetteer - JandMN: 2001