Lingwood
English
Etymology
From either Old Norse lyng (“heather”) or Old English hlinc (“hill, slope, ridge, bank”) + wudu (“wood”).[1]
Proper noun
Lingwood (countable and uncountable, plural Lingwoods)
- A village in Lingwood and Burlingham parish, Broadland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG3608).
- A habitational surname.
Derived terms
Statistics
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Lingwood is the 8124th most common surname in England, belonging to 787 individuals.
References
- "Key to English Place Names". Key to English Place Names- Worth Kent. University of Nottingham.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Lingwood”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 442.
- Forebears
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