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.

Socken Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Rowley

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) . Cf. Sokmanberg 1231 FF . From ME sokman ' a free peasant owing suit of court ' and berg .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement

Rowley