londonist.com Other large parks Wormwood Scrubs This peculiar west London place name was formerly known as Wormholt Scrubs. 'Scrubs' denotes scrappy semi-wooded land. Worm comes from 'wyrm', the olden-times name for a snake, while 'holt' i…

londonist.com Other large parks Woolwich Common Woolwich is yet another Anglo-Saxon place name, thought to mean the trading place for wool. ↓↓↓ ◆まずは単語の意味がわからないままに訳す ウールウイッチ・コモン ウールウイッチはまだ別のアングロ…