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.

Mousehole

Other OS name in the Parish of Dowland

Historical Forms

Mousehole 1330 SR

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is Mousehole 1330SR (p) . ' Mousehollow or hole , ' possibly a term of contempt , v. holh .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Major Settlement

Dowland