Worwood Family History
Worwood Name Meaning
from Compton Whorwood (Staffs). Early forms of the place-name are Horewode and Horewood and so this place may also be one possible origin of the surname Horwood . The place-name derives from Old English horh horu ‘filth dirt’ + wudu ‘wood’.
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016