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Survey of English Place-Names

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Bowder Stone

Other OS name in the Parish of Borrowdale

Historical Forms

  • bowders stone 1751 GM
  • Boother-stone 1786 Gilpin
  • Bowder-stone, Powder-Stone or Bounder-Stone 1789 Clarke

Etymology

is bowders stone 1751 GM, Boother-stone 1786 Gilpin,Bowder-stone , Powder -Stone or Bounder -Stone 1789 Clarke . Cf. Bowtherstone house 1807 PR (Crosth) . A dial . form of ' boulder . '