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.

Clapgate

Other OS name in the Parish of Colehill

Etymology

, 1811 OS , v. clap-gate , on the par . bdy , probably alluding to a gate of the forest of Holt .