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.

The Copes

Other OS name in the Parish of East Dean

Historical Forms

  • the Coppice 1645 ib
  • the Coppice called the Copes 1662 ib

Etymology

, 1650, 1655Comm , the Coppice 1645 ib, the Coppice called the Copes 1662 ib , v. copeiz ' copse ' ; the spellings may represent the two e.ModE  formscoppice and copse , but the surname Cope is more likely for Copes as a pseudo - manorial p.n .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement