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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.

Tow Top

Other OS name in the Parish of Carleton

Etymology

, 1792 PRSk , the name of a steep ridge and hill - top , v. topp ; the first el . is possibly ME  towe ' flax ' used in some figurative sense like dial . tow ' rough tousledhair ' , perhaps referring to rough growth .