Malcoff
Early-attested site in the Parish of Chapel en le Frith
Historical Forms
- Malecaue, Malcaue, Malkaue Hy3,1285 For 1330 Ass 1332 Middleton 1381 SR Ed4 DuLa
- Malcane 1251 DbAv 1348 DbAxxxvi 1397 DbAxxiii
- Malkathe Hy3 For
- Malcaffe Hy8 DuLa
- Malcalf(e) Eliz DuLa 1625 Rental 1630 Bemrose 1767 Burdett
- Malcoffe 1734 Poll
Etymology
Professor Bruce Dickins suggests that this is a French name from OFr mal2 'bad' and cave 'cave', with the meaning 'dangerous pothole'.Local enquiry has failed to discover any such cave or pothole.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
- Allstone Lee
- Blackbrook
- Stodhart Fm
- Bagshaw
- Birch Fm
- Bolt Edge
- Bowden Hall
- Bradshaw Hall
- Chapel Milton
- Combs
- Courses
- Eaves
- Eccles Ho
- Hallsteads Fm
- Heylee
- Horderns
- Martinside
- Ollerenshaw Hall
- Rushup
- Thorny Lee
- Tunstead
- Tunstead Milton
- Warmbrook Barn
- Whitehough
Other OS name
- Cadster Clough
- Cockyard
- Colborne
- Collinacre
- Combs Edge
- Combshead Fm
- Cowlow
- Higher Crossings and Lower Crossings
- Downlee
- Dry Sitch
- Ford Hall
- Foxholes
- Further Bradshaw
- Greave Ho
- Green Low
- Hall
- Toot Hill
- Tortop
- Townend
- Under Eccles
- Wainstones
- Walton Ho
- Wash
- Waterside Fm
- Whitehills
- Whitelee
- Wilkinhill
- Windy Wall
- Wythen Lache
- Bag Ho
- Bank Hall
- Barmoor Clough
- Barn Fm
- Bennetston Hall
- Bettfield Clough
- Bings Fm
- Black Edge
- Bolehill Clough
- Bowdenhay Mill
- Bowden Head
- Bridgefield
- Brook Houses
- Cadster
- Castle Naze
- Combs Moss
- Danehey
- Digleach
- Dove Holes
- Eccles Pike
- Gnat Hole
- Hallhill
- Hazelhurst Fm
- Hilltop
- Hob Tor
- Hole Ho
- Hollinknoll
- Lady Low
- Laneside
- Lidgate
- Mag Low
- Marshgreen Fm
- Martin Side Cross
- Mosley Hall
- Newfield Fm
- Owlgreave
- Paradise
- Peaslows
- Pitchard Green
- Plumpton
- Portobello
- Pyegreave
- The Ridge and Ridge Hall
- Ridge Clough
- Roeside
- Roych Clough
- Roych Tor
- Rye Flatt
- Short Edge
- Silkhill Fm
- Sittinglow
- Slack Hall
- Sparkbottom
- Sparrowpit
- Spire Hollins
- Stonyford
- Tomlane
- Tom Moor Plantation