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.

Cockhead

Other OS name in the Parish of Stockport

Historical Forms

  • Cocks Head 1831 ib
  • Higher Cockshead & Lower Cockshead 1849 TA

Etymology

, Cocks Head 1831 ib, Higher Cockshead & Lower Cockshead 1849TA , v. cocc-scyte ' a cock-shoot ' .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name