Dawpool Cottages, Dawpool Bank, Dawpool and Dawpool School
Early-attested site in the Parish of Thurstaston
Historical Forms
- Dawpool Deep 1842 OS
- Dalpole Dale & Dalpole Medo(w) 1454 Sheaf
- Dawpoole 1707 ib
- Dawpoole or Dalpoole 1819 Orm2
- Dawpool 1724 NotCestr 1831 Hem
- Dalpoole 1752 Sheaf 1819 Orm2
- site of Dalpool Town 1831 Bry
Etymology
Dawpool Cottages (109–236835), Dawpool Bank (109–230830, Dawpool Deep 1842 OS, a sandbank covering a silted-up channel in Dee, v. dēope , banke ), Dawpool (109–246842, a nineteenth-century mansion) and Dawpool School (109–246847), with Dawpool Cottages (109–243847) 284 infra , are named after the lost hamlet of Dawpool (109–233838 according to Bry). The name appears in Dalpole Dale & Dalpole Medo (w )1454 Sheaf, 286 infra , and as Dawpoole 1707 ib, Dawpoole or Dalpoole 1819 Orm2, Dawpool 1724 NotCestr, 1831 Hem, Dalpoole 1752 Sheaf, 1819 Orm2, site of Dalpool Town 1831 Bry, cf. Dalpool Lane 1831 ib (109–233838 to 245839), Dawpool Meadow 1847TA , 'pool or creek at a valley', v. dæl 1 , dalr , pōl 1 , the site lying at the mouth of a 'steep, rocky valley' opening through the cliffs on the shore of Dee, cf. Orm2 ii489.