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Survey of English Place-Names

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Cow Drove

Other OS name in the Parish of Bere Regis

Historical Forms

  • Cow Drove Fd 1776 DROMap

Etymology

, 1845TA , Cow Drove Fd 1776DROMap , cf. a Comon Drove way for the Prince 's tenantes leading from the towne to Beere Heath 1617Add , v. drove .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement