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.

Brow

Other OS name in the Parish of Whinfell

Historical Forms

Browe 1636 CW(OS)xii

Brough 1686 Cocker

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is Browe 1636 CW (OS) xii, Brough 1686Cocker .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site

Major Settlement

Whinfell