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.

The Bowshaws

Other OS name in the Parish of Adel

Historical Forms

  • Bollesache l.12 Kirkst
  • Bowshaw 1848 TA4

Etymology

, Bollesache l. 12Kirkst, Bowshaw 1848TA 4 , ' copse of tree-trunks ' , v. bola , sceaga , or possibly ME  bolled ' pollarded ' as in Boldshay iii , 243 supra .