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.

Great Cove

Other OS name in the Parish of Kirkby Stephen

Historical Forms

  • the Greate cove 1652 ib

Etymology

, 1684BdyR (M. 5) , the Greate cove 1652 ib(M. 4) , v. grēat , cofa ' cave, cove ' ; many caves and potholes occur on the carboniferous limestone of the hills of Mallerstang .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site