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.

Hr Row & Lr Row, Row Copse, Row Hill (Fm)

Other OS name in the Parish of Holt

Historical Forms

  • Row Coppice 1847 ib

Etymology

( Row Coppice 1847ib ) , cf. Row Bottom , Row Grd & Row Plots 1847ib , v. rāw ' row of houses, hamlet ' , or ' row of trees ' ; Row Hill was earlier Hol (l )te Hyll (e )1531 DoNHAS, 1552DLCt , Holt Hill 1811 OS .