East Howe

East Howe, Bournemouth
settlement
parish:
county:
coords:
Bournemouth
Dorset
SZ0795
refce: HANTSLOC.t
old map: 25inch County Series map -- Hants LXXXV.4
East Howe
Howe, East
refce: Coates 1989
HOWE (EAST AND WEST), locations in Kinson, now in Dorset
There is a dialect word 'howe'='enclosure', common in the eastern parishes of Dorset, and both these late names (1811) derive from it. (Cf Place Names of Dorset II: 8).
   Old Hampshire Gazetteer - JandMN: 2001