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Survey of English Place-Names

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Upman Howe

Other OS name in the Parish of Brough

Historical Forms

  • -how 1696,1756 PR(B)

Etymology

, -how 1696, 1756 PR(B) , probably a ME  bynameUpman ' one living in the upper part of the village ' , as in Opmannehevede ( Gl i , p. xi , 53 ) and Upmantone ( K 306 ) .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name