Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• La Lawe 1255–6 Ass

• Lowe 1290 Ipm

• La Lowe 1291–2 Ass

• The Low(e) freqfrom1654 PR(L)

• La Louwe 1306–7 Ass

• The Lo(o)e freqfrom1596to1700 PR(L)

Etymology

'Tumulus', one of three Sa instances of simplex names from hlāw. No trace has been found of the eponymous burial mound.

Lai , a DB manor in Hodnet Hundred, has sometimes been considered to be Lowe, but Audley in Moreton Say, supra , is a more likely identification.

F. and C. Thorn, in the Phillimore edition of DB (note 4.14.4) note Dichelowe from a l.13th cent. survey of Bradford Hundred.