English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Cutholme

Early-attested site in the Parish of Chesterfield

Historical Forms

  • Cutholm 1393 DbCh
  • Cut(t)holm(e)lane 1445,1484 HardCh 1496 Bemrose

Etymology

Cutholme, Cutholm 1393 DbCh, Cut (t )holm (e )lane 1445, 1484HardCh , 1496Bemrose . 'Cut(t)'s land by a stream', v. holmr , cf. the nearby Cutthorpe supra 221, named in all probability from the same family.