Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Cup(p)efald 1138–49 BM

• Cup(p)efaud(e) 1239–42 FF 1248,1254 Ass 1274 Cl

• Cup(p)esfaude 1244,1279 FF

• Cubefeld 1200 Cur

• Cobbefaud(e) 1247 FF

• Cofaud 1242 ib

• Cop(p)efold 1247 FF 1291,1297 For 1299 Ipm

• Cop(p)efalde 1276 For

• Copfold(e) (Capefold) 1303 FA 1497 Ipm

• Cop(pe)wold(e) 1323 For 1361 Cl 1362 Fine 1362,1371 IpmR 1373 Cl

• Copweld Hall 1412 FA

• Cold(e)hall 1497 Ipm 1539,1542

• Cupfold, Cubfaut(e) 1526 FF

• Cupfeld 1539 LP

• Coptfold(e)hall alias Coldehalle 1554 FF

• alias Codehall 1575 BM

Etymology

It is difficult to be certain whether the pers. name involved is Cuppa or Cubba , but it is more probably the latter, with an unvoicing of b through the influence of the following f . For the pers. name Cubba cf. Cublington (PN Bk 77–8), for Cuppa cf. Kipson (PN Sx 71). Hence, 'fold of Cubba or Cuppa ,' v. falod . The alternative name may be a corruption of the earlier one. More probably it is an independent alternative.