Cowpen /ˈkuːpən/ is an area of Blyth and former civil parish, now in the parish of Blyth in the county of Northumberland, England.

The Ward population taken at the 2011 census was 4,466.

[2] In the 12th century CE, its name was Cupum, possibly the dative plural of Old Norse kupa, "a cuplike depression or valley".

[3] Cowpen was formerly a township in Horton parish,[4] from 1866 Cowpen was a civil parish in its own right until it was abolished on 1 April 1920 to form Blyth.

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