Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Cotes 1086 DB 1175 ChancR 1176,1191 P 1200 1201 Ass 1202 P 1204 FF 1204,1205,1206 P 1209 FF 1212 Fees 1212,1214 P 1220 Cur 1223,1227 FF 1230 P 1249,1262 FF 1265 Misc

• Cotes “by” Grymesby 1426 Cl

• Cotis c.1115 LS

• Cotun c.1115 LS 1183,1184,1185 P

• Kotun 1182 ib

• Cothum 1196 ChancR

• Cotom 1374,1375 Peace

• Magna Cotes 1272 Ass 1281,1297 FF 1242–43 Fees 1254 ValNor 1274 Abbr 1275 RH 1284,1294 RSut 1303,1316 FA 1318 AD 1327,1332 SR

• Magna Cotes juxta Grimesby 1584 MiscDon

• Magna Cotis 1503 Ipm

• Cotes Magna 1526 Sub 1554 InstBen

• Cotes magna 1569 1590,1594 BT

• Cotes M: 1576 Saxton

• Cotts Magna 1535 VEiv

• Cots Mag a1567 LNQv

• Cootes magna 1570 BT

• Coates magna 1602,1614,1622,1675 1686 Terrier

• Coats Magna 1689,1723 BT 1697,1709,1724 Terrier

• “Great” Cotes 1282 Ipm 1307 Pat 1313 Ch 1314 Ipm 1319,1329 Pat 1347 Fine 1509 Ipm

• “Great” Cothes 1303 Pap

• “Great” Cottes 1561 Pat

• Mikelcotes 1329 Ass

• Mykelcotes 1374 Peace

• Mykelkotes 1369 Misc

• Mekelcotes 1413–26 ECP

• Mikyll Cotes 1493–1500 MinAcct

• Mikkyl Cotes 1503 Brasses

• Mikell Cotes 1518 GrimsCB

• Great Cootes 1562 BT

• Great Cottes 1576 LER

• greate Cotes c.1590 Terrier 1596 Foster

• Great Cotes 1610 Speed 1629 Inv 1634 Terrier 1639,1645 BT

• Great Coats 1702 1706 Terrier

• Great Coates 1741 PT 1756 BT 1781 Terrier

• Grawencotes, Grauncotes Hy3 (e14) Selby

Etymology

'The cottages, the sheds or shelters', v. cot ; forms in Cotun etc. are from the dat.pl. cotum and for this variation, v. Ekwall, Studies 31–32. Great Coates is distinguished as such from the adjacent Little Coates infra . Spellings in Mikel -, Mykel - etc. are from ON  mikill 'big, great'. Forms in Grawencotes , Grauncotes Hy3 (e14) Selby probably belong here, and contain ME  graunt , gra (u )nd , gra (u )n (in compounds) 'large, big; great' as first el., as suggested by Dr Insley.