English Place-name Society

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.

Povey's Fm

Other OS name in the Parish of Clayton

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) can be traced back to the 16th cent , and derives from an old Huguenot family Povey or Poovey ( M . S . H . ) .