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Bowlands Covert

Other OS name in the Parish of Swallow

Historical Forms

  • Bowlands Cover 1824 O 1828 Bry

Etymology

, Bowlands Cover 1824 O, 1828 Bry , cf. Bowlandes 1457TCC , 1580Terrier , Bowlands 1601, 1686, 1697, 1724Terrier , north Bowlandes , South Bowlandes 1606Terrier , East bowlandes 1652Rad , v. boga ' a bow ' , used in some transferred sense not obvious from the topography , land .