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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.

Black Moss Covert

Other OS name in the Parish of Bowdon

Historical Forms

  • Cockeridge Covert 1831 Bry
  • Little Cockridge 1838 TA

Etymology

, Cockeridge Covert 1831 Bry,Little Cockridge 1838TA , cf. foll. , perhaps ' cock ridge ' , v. cocc 2 ' a(wood)cock ' , hrycg , but cf. Cokridmosse 27infra .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site