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.

Coleridge Hundred

Hundred in the County of Devon

Historical Forms

  • Curigge 1238 Ass
  • Courigḡ 1244 Ass
  • Colrig 1276 RH
  • Colerigh 1284 FA
  • Colrigg 1309 Ch

Etymology

v. Coleridge infra 332. In the Geld Roll (1084) the hundred is called Cadelintona , presumably from Chillington in Stokenham infra 332.