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Survey of English Place-Names

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Mawerbury

Other OS name in the Parish of Symondsbury

Historical Forms

  • Lower Mowerbury Farm 1769 DCMMap
  • Mowbray or Moor Bath Plot 1839 TA
  • Mawre 1331 HarlCh

Etymology

( lost , about SY 422947 ) , Lower Mowerbury Farm 1769DCMMap , Mowbray or Moor Bath Plot 1839TA , perhaps to be associated with the family of John Mawre 1331HarlCh , second el . uncertain , cf. Mowers Md 1839TA and Moorbathsupra .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement