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" [1] states for it a Latin name ''Silva Magna'' and a Celtic name ''Coitmaur'': both mean "big forest".