Wychwood Park
The origins of the name Wychwood can be traced back to about 600 AD, to a Saxon kingdom known as the Hwicce, and to a large forest or 'wudu'. Thus we get Hwiccewudu, by the 13th century: Wychwood, and surprisingly in the 19th century: Whichwood!
In 1860, Marmaduke Matthews, artist and inventor, immigrated to Canada from Fifield, Oxfordshire, England. From Fifield House, where he grew up, he would have looked out to such places as Shipton-under-Wychwood, Milton-under-Wychwood, and the retreating Wychwood Forest (a Royal Forest until 1857).
It is through him, from his house 'Wychwood', which he built in 1874 on land that was later to form part of Wychwood Park, that we get a name which has been such an influence, over the years, on this entire area.
Plaque via Alan L. Brown's site Toronto Plaques. Full page here.