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.

Sawkins

Other OS name in the Parish of High Easter

Historical Forms

Sowkynyz 1567 Ct

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is Salkyn (y )smede 1497–8,Salkyn (y )sgrove 1515, Sawkyns 1509Ct , 1595 Lancs, Sowkynyz 1567Ct .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name