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.

Bowerwood

Other OS name in the Parish of Broadhembury

Historical Forms

  • Bowode 1495 Oliver

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) may be identical with Bowode 1495 Oliver 395 . There is no wood here now , but there is curved land , cf. Bowden supra 37 .