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.

Coward's Lake & Coward's Lane

Other OS name in the Parish of Abbotsbury

Etymology

, cf. Richard & Thomas Coward 1664 HTax ; Cowards Lake is a small stream flowing south into West Fleet , v. lacu .