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.

Powcady

Other OS name in the Parish of Walton

Historical Forms

  • Pocadie 1668 ib
  • Pokeadam 1728 ib

Etymology

is Pocadie 1668 ib., Pokeadam 1728 ib . This is near Spadeadam (supra 96) , but the relationship between the names , like their meaning , is uncertain .