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Survey of English Place-Names

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Cowers Lane

Other OS name in the Parish of Shottle and Postern

Historical Forms

  • Cowehouse Lane 1555 Lanc

Etymology

, Cowehouse Lane 1555 Lanc , cf. Couhous 1386DuLa , 1408For , v. , hūs ; for the development cf. Millers Dale supra 180 . It would appear to have been the cow - shed for the whole of Duffield Frith .