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.
Survey of English place-names
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Cow Pastures
Cow Pastures
Other OS name in the Parish of Cottenham
Historical Forms
ye Cow pasture
1596
Christ
's
Etymology
( 6 ″ ) is
ye
Cow
pasture
1596
Christ
's
.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Alboro Close Drove
Chear Fen
Lockspit Hall Drove
The Lots
Setchel Fen
Smithey Fen
Top Moor
The Undertakers
Other OS name
Bullocks Haste Common
The Causeway
Church End, Church Hill
Church Field
Cottenham Lode
Dunstal Field
Further Field or Farm Field
Green End
The Holme
Mitchell Hill Common
Great North Fen
Little North Fen
Oxholme
The Punt
Two Mill Field
Major Settlement
Cottenham