Cowpen

{{Short description|Area of Blyth, Northumberland, England}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}}

{{Use British English|date=August 2019}}

{{Infobox UK place

|static_image_name = Cowpen, Blyth, Northumberland, the Roman Catholic Church of St Cuthbert. - geograph.org.uk - 223552.jpg

|static_image_caption = The Church of St Cuthbert

|official_name = Cowpen

|os_grid_reference = NZ295815

|coordinates = {{coord|55.127|-1.539|display=inline,title}}

|label_position = left

|civil_parish=Blyth

|unitary_england = Northumberland

|lieutenancy_england = Northumberland

|region = North East England

|country = England

|post_town = BLYTH

|postcode_area = NE

|postcode_district = NE24

|dial_code = 01670

|constituency_westminster = Blyth Valley

|population = 4,466

}}

Cowpen {{IPAc-en|ˈ|k|uː|p|ən}} is an area of Blyth 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=13695312&c=Cowpen&d=14&e=62&g=6452940&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1435427516246&enc=1|title=Blyth Ward population 2011|accessdate=27 June 2015}} In 1911 the parish had a population of 21,295.{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10306929/cube/TOT_POP|title=Population statistics Cowpen Tn/CP through time|publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time|accessdate=26 January 2022}}

In the 12th century CE, its name was Cupum, possibly the dative plural of Old Norse kupa, "a cuplike depression or valley".Allen Mawer, "The Scandinavian Kingdom of Northumbria", page 309, Essays and studies presented to William Ridgeway: on his sixtieth birthday, 6 August 1913, Cambridge University Press, 1913.