English Explanatory Dictionary

Sowerby

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A placename:
  2. A hamlet in Inskip-with-Sowerby parish, Wyre district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD4738).
  3. A village and civil parish in Hambleton district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE4381).
  4. A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0423).
  5. A habitational surname from Old Norse.

Word forms

Sowerby Sowerbys

Etymology

From Old Norse saurr (“mud, dirt, sour ground”) + bý (“farmstead”).

Derived words

Inskip-with-Sowerby Sowerby Bridge Temple Sowerby
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