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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.

Rowbarrow

Other OS name in the Parish of Winterborne Stickland

Etymology

, 1811 OS , ' rough barrow ' , from rūh ( wk . obl . rūwan ) , beorg , cf. Rowbarrow hundred 1 3 ; a tumulus is marked 6 ″ .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement