Sowerby.
A placename:
Meaning & usage
A placename: A hamlet in Inskip-with-Sowerby parish, Wyre district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD4738).
A placename: A village and civil parish in Hambleton district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE4381).
A placename: A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0423).
A habitational surname from Old Norse.
Where this word comes from
From Old Norse saurr (“mud, dirt, sour ground”) + bý (“farmstead”).
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