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.

Dowgate Bridge

Early-attested site in the Parish of Leverington

Etymology

Dowgate Bridge (6″) is so named in 1821 (Baker). Cf. a gote called Dogarde 1368 Imb, gurgitem vocatam Dieugard 1438Sewers . A pious or facetious French name for the gote from which the bridge took its name. 'God protect' those who came near it.