Lingwood

English

Etymology

From either Old Norse lyng (“heather”) or Old English hlinc (“hill, slope, ridge, bank”) + wudu (“wood”).

Proper noun

Lingwood (countable and uncountable, plural Lingwoods)

1. A village in Lingwood and Burlingham parish, Broadland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG3608).
2. A habitational surname.

Derived terms

• Lingwood and Burlingham

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Lingwood is the 8124^th most common surname in England, belonging to 787 individuals.

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

Anagrams

• Woodling, woolding