Loweswater
Major Settlement in the Parish of Loweswater
Historical Forms
- Lousewater c.1160 StB 1303 GDR 1323 Ch 1383 Pat 1385 FF
- Laswater (sic) c.1160 Lowther
- Losewater 1247,1556 FF
- Lowswater 1186 StB
- Lowswatter 1656 CantWvii
- Laweswater, Laweswatre 1188,1189 P 1397 Pat
- Laueswat' 1190–5 P
- Loueneswater t.Rici Ch 1308
- Loweswatre 1230 Scotland 1279 Ass 1366 Pat
- Loweswater 1367 Ipm
- Louswater 1281 Wickwane
- Lauswatre 1357 FF 1389 ib
- Lawswatyr 1388 StB
- Lawswater 1764 CWxli
Etymology
v. Loweswater supra 34.