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Bowden Green, Lower Bowden, Lower Bowden Fm, Upper Bowden Fm

Early-attested site in the Parish of Pangbourne

Etymology

Bowden Green, Lower Bowden, Lower Bowden Fm, Upper Bowden Fm, cf. Pangbournebovedowne , Bovedowne , Bovedown Hethe 1548LRMB , Pangborne Bovedowne 1552LRMB , Bonedowne 1667PubLib (Clayton ), Lower Bowden Fm , Upper Bowden Fm , Bowden Green 1830 OS, 1846 Snare, Lower Bowden 1869PubLib , 'above the hill', v. bufan , dūn , identical with Bovingdon Bk 187–8. The land slopes fairly steeply from here to the Thames valley at Pangbourne.