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.

Cock Abingdon Fm

Other OS name in the Parish of Hallaton

Historical Forms

  • Cock Abington 1928 Map

Etymology

, Cock Abington 1928 Map . The farmstead is marked on the 1824 O.S. map , but is unnamed there . This is possibly an early site in tūn , the surn . Abington of a family once from the township of this name , 22 miles to the south in Northants . being less likely ; Cock may have replaced an earlier Clock , with reference to a farm , v. Clock Cl in f. ns . ( a ) .