Rowbury Fm
Early-attested site in the Parish of Boxford
Historical Forms
- Roughborowe cop' 1538 RentSur
- copic' vocat' the Rowborough 1550 LRMB
- Rowbury Fm and Copse 1830 OS
Etymology
Rowbury Fm, Roughborowe cop '1538RentSur , copic ' vocat ' the Rowborough 1550LRMB , Rowbury Fm and Copse 1830 OS. The 'rough hill' was the meeting place of one of the hundreds later merged in Faircross Hundred, v. 231. Rowbury Fm is situated on a gentle slope, and it is possible that the beorg was a tumulus, not a natural hill.
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
- Prospect Cottage
- Wickham Heath
- Bell Inn
- Rowhedge Cottage
- Williams's Copse
- Basing's Fm
- Boxford Common
- Boxford Fm
- Butcher's Wd
- Courtoak Fm
- Dean's Copse
- Green Lane
- Highstreet Fm
- Hoar Hill
- Hunt's Green, Huntsgreen Fm, Huntsgreen Copse
- Iremonger's Cottages
- Knapp's Fm
- Leonard's Plantation
- Mud Hall Cottages
- Nalder Plantation
- Priddle's Fm
- Upper Fm
- Borough Hill, Borough Copse
- Shepherd's Border
- Woodmansfield Cottages