Cowpen is an area of Blyth and former

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, now in the parish of Blyth in the county of

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, England. It is just east of the

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. 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

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''kupa'', "a cuplike depression or valley".

Governance

Cowpen was formerly a

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parish, from 1866 Cowpen was a civil parish in its own right until it was abolished on 1 April 1920 to form Blyth.

References

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