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.

Cow Common

Field in the Parish of Blaston

Historical Forms

  • 1839 TA 1839 TA
  • the neates pasture 1601 Terrier

Etymology

Cow Common 1839 (v. commun) (it is the neates pasture 1601, v. nēat, pasture) (v. ); Cranes Cl or Nobles Cl 1839 with the surns. Crane and Noble, v. Cranesclose Spinney supra)