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.

Pow

Other OS name in the Parish of Orton

Etymology

is so named in 1729 (PR) . Cf. Powath 1605 CW xl ( v. vað ) . It is presumably the pool ( v. poll ) which gave name to PowBeck supra 24 .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site

Major Settlement