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.
Survey of English place-names
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Brown Moor
Brown Moor
Other OS name in the Parish of Torpenhow
Historical Forms
the Brown Moor
1703
NicVisit
Etymology
( 6 ″ ) is
the
Brown
Moor
1703 NicVisit .
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
Park Ho
Borrowscale
Cockshot Wood
Low Woodnook
Whittas Park
Early-attested site
Belsay Fields
Caermote
Whitrigg
Major Settlement
Torpenhow