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.

Bowden Head

Other OS name in the Parish of Chapel en le Frith

Historical Forms

  • Bowdon hedd 1549 FF

Etymology

, Bowdon hedd 1549FF , v. hēafod and cf. BowdenHall supra 61 .