Selwood Forest

Selwood Forest

Selwood Forest is an area of woodland in or around Somerset in southwest England. In Anglo-Saxon times, it was a big forest.

Its name is recorded in Anglo-Saxon around 894 as "Seluudu" = (perhaps) "Sealhwudu" = "Sallow wood". Asser's "The_Life_of_King_Alfred" [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/asser.html] states for it a Latin name "Silva Magna" and a Celtic name "Coitmaur": both mean "big forest".


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