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Woodnesborough is a village in East Kent two miles west of Sandwich. Its name is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086 as ''Golles-Wanesberge'', with forms like ''Wodnesbeorge'' being attested a little later, around 1100. The name is believed to have meant ''Woden's hill/mound'' (Old English ''Wōdnes burh'') after Anglo-Saxon god Woden (the English cognate of the Norse Odin, known in Proto-Germanic as Wodanaz); though some of the spellings also suggest *''wænnes beorg'' ('hill of the mound'), from Old English ''wenn'', ''wænn'' 'a tumour, blister, mound'. At the end of the eighteenth century there is a record of a burial mound beside the church, but the settlement also boasts a hill which could equally well have been described as a ''burh'' in Old English.〔Victor Watts (ed.), ''The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), s.v. ''WOODNESBOROUGH''.〕 The village was once served by East Kent Light Railway and can now be reached by bus services from Sandwich. There was also a post office, which closed down at the end of January 2008. There is a Grade II * listed〔(British Listed Buildings ) retrieved 20 July 2013〕 Anglican church dedicated to St Mary the Virgin. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Woodnesborough」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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