Cowplain

Cowplain, Havant
settlement
parish:
county:
coords:
Havant
Hampshire
SU6911
refce: HANTSLOC.t

old map: 25inch County Series map -- Hants LXVIII.14

Cowplain
otherwise: Cow-plain, 1859

refce: Coates 1989
COWPLAIN
This is the only one of the spots called 'plain' in the Forest of Bere which has achieved distinction as a biggish inhabited place. These will have been forest plains in the technical sense .... [Rackham 'Trees'....]
PLAIN
This word is used in its ordinary sense of 'large tract of open land' both in the New Forest (BRATLEY PLAIN 'Wilverley Plain, Janesmoor Plain') and in the Forest of Bere (COWPLAIN).

   Old Hampshire Gazetteer - JandMN: 2001