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Dowager's Cops

Other OS name in the Parish of West Parley

Historical Forms

  • Dowges Copse 1839 TA

Etymology

, Dowges Copse 1839TA , cf. Dudge Forde 1591DLMB , the lane at Dowgers Forde 1595DLComm , Dowdges 5 Acres & Dowdges 6 Acres 1839TA , named from the family of Walter Do (u )ge 1327SR , 1340NI , v. copis , ford .