Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• the colledge howse and groundes in Sostangate 1587 GrimsCLeet

• Colledge land 1634 GrimsCLeet

• ye Colledge ground 1651 GrimsCLeet

• the Collige ground 1662 GrimsCLeet

• (apud) le Colledge, ye Colledg ground 1679 GrimsCLeet

Etymology

College Ho (lost), the colledge howse and groundes in Sostangate 1587GrimsCLeet , Colledge land 1634GrimsCLeet , ye Colledge ground 1651GrimsCLeet , the Collige ground 1662GrimsCLeet , (apud ) le Colledge , y e Colledg ground 1679GrimsCLeet ; the significance of the name has not been discovered, but it may perhaps relate to Trinity College Cambridge which held land in Grimsby.