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.

High Fawes & Low Fawes

Other OS name in the Parish of Sedbergh

Historical Forms

  • (ye) Fawes 1616,1634 PR

Etymology

, (y e) Fawes 1616, 1634 PR , v. (ge)fall ' clearing ' .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site

Major Settlement