Survey of English Place-Names

Etymology

Sowerby Ramble, a narrow strip of land 2 to 400 yards wide and nearly 6 miles long, surviving from the thirteenth century when Erringden Park 172infra (which finally became a separate township) was staked out of Sowerby by the Earls of Warren; in 1331 £19 was paid for repairing the paling (WCR iii, 191); the park was dispaled in 1449 (HAS 52, 33). The Ramble starts at Mytholmroyd, passes alongside the Calder by Palace Ho (189) and the lost Palace Holme (173 infra ) to Stoodley Glen and thence over the moors to Withens where it rejoins the old township of Sowerby. v. HAS 15, 233 ff, PRHept i, Watson 84. For another long narrow strip of land of a somewhat similar kind cf. Netherthong ii, 286supra .