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".

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