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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.

Barrow Brow

Other OS name in the Parish of Bolton by Bowland

Etymology

, 1726PRBlt , cf. Barry bankes 1651 ib , Barrow biers 1696 ib , v. bearu ' grove ' , brū , banke , bȳre ' cow-shed ' .