Dovenby is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Bridekirk, in the Cumberland district, in the county of Cumbria, England. It is on the A594 road and is north west of Cockermouth, east of Dearham, east of Maryport, north east of Workington and south west of Carlisle. In 1931 the parish had a population of 163.
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Dovenby is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Bridekirk, in the Cumberland district, in the county of Cumbria, England. It is on the A594 road and is north west of Cockermouth, east of Dearham, east of Maryport, north east of Workington and south west of Carlisle. In 1931 the parish had a population of 163.
==Toponymy== 'Dovenby' is 'Dufan's bȳ' or 'Dufan's hamlet or village'. 'Bȳ' is late Old English, from Old Norse 'býr'. The personal name 'Dufan' "is of Irish origin (OIr 'Dubhán'), a diminutive of 'dubh', 'black', but it is on record from Iceland."
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).