Chilvers Coton
Major Settlement in the Parish of Chilvers Coton
Historical Forms
- Celverdestoche 1086 DB
- Cheluordestoke 1221 Ass
- Chelverthescote c.1155 Dane
- Chelverdesc(h)ote 1185 Templars 12th Combe c.1235 ADi
- Chelvredescote 1221 FF 1247 Ass
- Chelfredescote 1247 FF
- Chelveredescote 1267 Ch
- Cheluerescote c.1200 BM 1285 FF
- Chelurecote 1248 Ch
- Chelv(e)r(e)scote 1241 AD 1423 FF
- Chelvercote 1291 Tax 1346 Pat
- Chelveriscote 1282 ADi
- Chelverdecote c.1203 BM
- Chelveres coton 1468 ADi
- Chilver(s) Coton 1492 Ipm 1589 ADv
- Chylverscotton 1539 BM
- Chilverscotton al. Potters Coton 1604 Recov
- Coton al. Chilverscoton 1657 ib
- Kotes 1221 Ass
- Cotes 1287 BM
- Coton 1376 AD i
- Cotonend beside Eton 1476 AD v
- Potters Cotton 1533, 1603 FF
- Potters Cotton al. Coton al. Coyton 1546 LP
- Coton c. 1830 O.S.
Etymology
'Cēolfrið 's cot(e).' “At first so called from him that possesst it in the Saxons time; whom I suppose to have been one Ceolfredus , that being a name then in use” (Dugdale 770).Cf. Ritter 128. Coton or Potters Coton seems to have been a distinct place, Kotes 1221Ass , Cotes 1287 BM, Coton 1376 AD i, Cotonend beside Eton 1476 AD v, Potters Cotton 1533, 1603FF , Potters Cotton al. Coton al. Coyton 1546 LP, Coton c. 1830 O.S., but the two places seem to have been merged by 1604. For Potters , cf. Potters Green infra 189 and Potterspury (PN Nth 105). Coton shows substitution of the common form coton from the dat. pl. cotum . The DB form is probably corrupt, but it may show a different second element, viz. stoc(c).