English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Trough of Bowland

Early-attested site in the Parish of Slaidburn

Historical Forms

  • Trogh 1343,1423 MinAcct

Etymology

Trough of Bowland, 1771 M, Trogh 1343, 1423MinAcct . v. trōg 'a trough, a valley', here describing the impressive head of the deep valley above Sykes where it opens out to receive the two side valleys of Rams Clough and Swine Clough below the pass over the mountain to Lancashire.

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name