Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Bowlin(g) house 1742,1766 PRRth

Etymology

, Bowlin (g ) house 1742, 1766 PRRth , probably named from the Bowling family , no doubt originating in Bowling iii, 244infra , who were here from at least the sixteenth century ( PRRth freq ) ; they may have been there much longer since the local p.n. Bollingthorp ' 1292MinAcct 26 contains the same surname ; the latter is probably an early alternative name for Thorpe on the Hill .