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.

Dove Cottage

Other OS name in the Parish of Grasmere

Etymology

, formerly an inn called the Dove and Olive Bough , later the poet Wordsworth 's home , his name being recalled in Wordsworth's Well (infra ) .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name