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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.

Cow Band

Other OS name in the Parish of Dufton

Etymology

, 1859OS , e. ModE band ' projecting ridge ' , here referring to ' moorland cow-pasturebetween two lines of boulders ' , cf . The Band (i, 204supra ) .