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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.

Bower Hill

Other OS name in the Parish of Sandal Magna

Etymology

, cf. Bower House 1622Bretton 84 , Sterlyngbowere (a tenement) 1557 YD viii , from the surname Sterling and būr 1 ' a cottage, a dwelling ' .