Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Butley Lodge 1842 OS

• Yemonds 1602 Orm2iii666

• Higher Yowards & Lower Yowards 1831 Bry

• The Yewards, Yewards Meadow 1848 TA

Etymology

( 101–897787 ) , Butley Lodge 1842 OS, Yemonds 1602 Orm2 iii666 (an unreliable form), Higher Yowards & Lower Yowards 1831 Bry, The Yewards , Yewards Meadow 1848TA , ' the river meadows ' , v. ēa , waroð ( in the form warod discussed in Löfvenberg 220 ) . Lower Yowards became a sewage works 101 – 895786 .