Cadwell Covert, Cadwell Fm
Early-attested site in the Parish of Brightwell Baldwin
Historical Forms
- Cadewelle 1086 DB 1326 Ipm
- Chadewell' 1216 Cl
- Kad(e)walle 1196 FF
- Cadwal 1582 Pat
- Cadwallis 1627–8 Pat 1651 FF
- Kaldewell' 1205 Cur
- Caudewell 1206 Cur
- Chaudewell' 1240–1 Ass
- Radewella 1217 Bract
- Codewelle 1285 Ass
- Cadwelles c.1605 Survey
- Cadandune 887 BCS547 11th
Etymology
'Cada 's spring or stream,' v. w(i)elle. Cadandune 887 (11th) BCS 547 is named from the same man, v. dūn . The forms from 1196 FF were noted by Ekwall (Contributions to the History of OE Dialects , Lund 1917, p. 48) as “presumably due to some special circumstance (influence from wallen vb. or the like).” Forms with -wal (l ) have been noted also in the 16th and 17th centuries, however, and there may have been a local form of the name with a second element derived from WMidland wælle .