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.

Bowley

Early-attested site in the Parish of Cadbury

Historical Forms

Bovelia 1086 DB

Bovelegh 1485 Ipm

Bogeleg' 1212 Fees96 1224–44 Exon

Boghelee c.1250 StNicholas

Boghaleg 1279 Ipm

Etymology

'Curved leah,' v. Bowden supra 37.

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Major Settlement

Cadbury