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.

Sowermire

Other OS name in the Parish of Kirkby Lonsdale

Historical Forms

  • Sowrmire 1692,1696 ib

Etymology

, 1672PR(Md) , Sowrmire 1692, 1696 ib , ' sour bog ' , v. sūr , mýrr , cf. Sorrowsyke (supra ) .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site