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.

Owshaw

Other OS name in the Parish of Kirkby Lonsdale

Historical Forms

  • Wluescahe 1190–1200 Cockers

Etymology

1865 OS , Wluescahe 1190–1200 Cockers , ' wolf copse ' , v. ulfr ( perhaps replacing wulf ) , sceaga .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site