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.

Sowerby under Cotcliffe

Major Settlement in the Parish of Kirby Sigston

Historical Forms

Sourebi, Soureby 1086 DB 1088 LVD51

Saurebi 1240–50 Bodla.i.58

Suleby sub Koteclyf 1285 KI

Etymology

v. saurr , by , Sowerby and Cotcliffe 128, 205supra .

Places in the same Parish

Major Settlement

Early-attested site