Cowpen is an area of
Blyth Blyth may refer to:
People
* Blyth (surname)
* Blythe (given name)
Places Australia
* Blyth, South Australia, a small town
Canada
* Blyth, Ontario, a village
United Kingdom
* Blyth, Northumberland, a town
** Blyth Valley (UK Parliament ...
and former
civil parish, now in the parish of Blyth in the county of
Northumberland, England. It is just east of the
A189 road. The Ward population taken at the
2011 census was 4,466. In 1911 the parish had a population of 21,295.
In the 12th century CE, its name was ''Cupum'', possibly the dative plural of
Old Norse ''kupa'', "a cuplike depression or valley".
Governance
Cowpen was formerly a
township in
Horton Horton may refer to:
Places Antarctica
* Horton Glacier, Adelaide Island, Antarctica
* Horton Ledge, Queen Elizabeth Land, Antarctica
Australia
* Horton, Queensland, a town and locality in the Bundaberg Region
* Horton River (Australia), ...
parish, from 1866 Cowpen was a civil parish in its own right until it was abolished on 1 April 1920 to form Blyth.
References
Villages in Northumberland
Former civil parishes in Northumberland
Blyth, Northumberland
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