English Place-name Society

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.

Boblow

Early-attested site in the Parish of Helion Bumpstead

Historical Forms

  • Bo(b)b(e)lowe t.Hy2,13th StJohn
  • Bo(b)b(e)lowehall 1383 Queens

Etymology

Boblow is Bo (b )b (e )lowe t. Hy 2, 13thStJohn , Bo (b )b (e )lowehall 1383Queens , Bo (b )b (e )lawe , Bo (b )b (e )louwe 13th, Bub (be )lowe (feld )14thStJohn , 1535 VE, 1543–4 LP. 'Bubba 's hill,' v. hlaw and cf. Bobbingworth supra 52. Juliana and Amice de Bo (u )benhal ', who are mentioned in connection with the neighbourhood in 1254 (Ass ), must have taken their name from some place near, named from the same man. v. healh .