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Survey of English Place-Names

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Cowleaze Copse

Other OS name in the Parish of Chideock

Historical Forms

  • First Cowleaze & Second Cowleaze, Cowleaze, Cowleaze Md, Cowleaze Pce & Cowleaze Plot, South Cowleaze (Plot) 1841 TA

Etymology

, named from First Cowleaze & Second Cowleaze , Cowleaze , Cowleaze Md , Cowleaze Pce & Cowleaze Plot , South Cowleaze (Plot )1841TA , cf. domu ' voc ' Cowehowse 1518Weld 2 .