| Country: | England |
| Official Name: | Womenswold |
| Label Position: | top |
| Population: | 286 |
| Population Ref: | (Civil Parish 2011)[1] |
| Area Total Km2: | 7.44 |
| Civil Parish: | Womenswold |
| Shire District: | City of Canterbury |
| Shire County: | Kent |
| Region: | South East England |
| Constituency Westminster: | Canterbury |
| Post Town: | Canterbury |
| Postcode District: | CT4 |
| Postcode Area: | CT |
| Dial Code: | 01227 |
| Os Grid Reference: | TR227508 |
| Coordinates: | 51.2108°N 1.1878°W |
Womenswold is a village and civil parish centred 7miles south-east of Canterbury, Kent, England, 1 mile to the east of the A2 road. The parish consists of three hamlets: Womenswold, Woolage Village and Woolage Green.
Historically, Womenswold has been recorded with various spellings, including Wymynswold[2] and Wimlingswold.[3] A further one may be Wymelyngewolde [4]
Originally 'Wymelyngewolde', from the combination of the possible personal name of ‘Wimel’ and the Old English ‘ingas’ meaning the ‘people of’ and ‘wald’ as a ‘forest’. Thus Womanswold, or 'Wymelyngewolde', means the ‘forest of the people of Wimel’.
The church of St, Margaret of Antioch covers all three hamlets, in Womenswold proper rather than the woodland, cereal and pasture fields within its bounds. A small mediaeval building without any side aisles, it is part of the Barham Downs group of churches.