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.

Flaxhigh Covert

Other OS name in the Parish of Bowdon

Historical Forms

  • Flax Eye 1838 TA183

Etymology

, Flax Eye 1838TA 183 , ' flax meadow ' , v. fleax , ēg .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site