Dowsdale Plantation
Early-attested site in the Parish of Thorney
Etymology
Dowsdale Plantation (6″). Cf. Dowysdale , Dowesdale 1469 Pat, Dovesdale 1529 BedL, Douisdale 1597Wisbech Map , Dows (e )dale 1610 Speed and Dowsdale Arm supra 209. This is to be associated with Dowsdale Bank in Croyland and Dowsdale in Whaplode (L), Dousedale 1331 Spalding , just over the Lincolnshire border. Possibly 'Dúsi 's valley,' v. dæl or, as the topography is not very distinctive, 'Dúsi 's share of land,' v. dǣl . Dúsi is an ODan personal name, found also in Dowsby (L), Dusebi 1086 DB (v. DEPN).
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Other OS name
- Archer's Drove
- Green Drove
- Harley's Drove
- Harriman's Drove
- Hunt's Drove
- Scolding Drove
- Toneham Fm
- Ward's Causeway
- Barlees Fen
- Bar Pastures
- Bar Pasture Fm
- Blue Bell Fm
- Boarden Ho Drove
- Cobbler's Fen
- Crowtree Fm
- Dairy Fm
- English Drove
- French Drove
- Stone Bridge
- Grange Fm
- Knarr Cross Fm
- Upper Knarr Fen
- Middle Knarr Fen
- Lower Knarr Fen
- New Knarr Fen Drove
- Old Knarr Fen Drove
- Mill Fen
- Morris Fen
- No Mans Land(lost)
- North Fen
- Ruff Fen
- St Vincent's Cross Fm
- Thorney Causeway
- Great Towers Fen
- Little Towers Fen
- Willow Hall