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.

Cowern Copse

Other OS name in the Parish of Horningsham

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) . Cf. Cowern Rag c. 1840TA , from OE  cu-ærn , ' cow-house . ' For rag , v. infra 453 .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement