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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.

Foulstone

Other OS name in the Parish of Kirkby Lonsdale

Etymology

, 1710CtB , 1823 M , probably ' fowl stone ' , v. fugol , stān , rocks being often named after birds , etc . ( cf. Dove Stones , Gawk Stones , Hen Stones , etc . YW iii , 204 , vi , 21 , 84 , and Brock Crag i, 162infra ) .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site