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.

Cogill

Early-attested site in the Parish of Aysgarth

Historical Forms

  • Cottkeld 13 RichReg

Etymology

'Spring near the cottage' v. cot , kelda . The name probably became Cokkeld and so Cogill on the analogy of names in gill .