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.

Browhead

Other OS name in the Parish of Windermere

Historical Forms

  • Browe 1626 Ct

Etymology

, 1831 Kend ii, 89 , named from Browe 1626Ct 103 , v. brū .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name