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

Other OS name in the Parish of Knowstone

Historical Forms

  • Westbowdon 1461 IpmR

Etymology

is Westboghedon 1330, Bokadon 1333SR (p), Westbowdon 1461 IpmR . v. Bowden supra 37 .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement