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.

Coldharbour

Other OS name in the Parish of Handley

Etymology

( a house ) , v. cald , here-beorg , cf. Wa xlvii , where W . Fergusson Irvine states that the p.n. was invented in 1903 by a member of his family as the name of a new plantation .