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.

Cow Hey

Other OS name in the Parish of Great Mitton

Historical Forms

  • Cowhey 1621 PRWd

Etymology

, Cowhey 1621 PRWd , ' cow enclosure ' , v. , (ge)hæg .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site