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.

Sutton Coldfield

Major Settlement in the Parish of Sutton Coldfield

Historical Forms

  • Sutone 1086 DB
  • Sutton(e) 1176 P 1487 ADv
  • Magna 1285 Ass
  • Sutton Col(l)efeld , Sutton super Col(l)efeld, Sutton in Col(l)efeld 1269 Ch 1549 Pat
  • Sutton Colfeld 1289 Pat
  • Sutton in le Colfeld 1289 Misc
  • Sotton in Colefeld 1298 Ipm
  • Sutton in Colvyle 1503 1547 Monast
  • Sutton Coluell 1504 BM
  • Sutton Cofeld 1576 S
  • Sutton Colfeilde 1603 FF
  • Sutton Coldefilde 1605 ib
  • Sutton Colefyld al. Sutton Coldfeild 1649 FF
  • Southeton apon (sic) Colefeeld c.1540 L
  • Great Sutton 1655 FF

Etymology

'South farm,' v. suþ , tun . “This Sutton was originally so called from its situation, there is no doubt; and therefore as it stands South to Lichfield I am inclin'd to believe that the name at first arose” (Dugdale 663). For Coldfield v. supra 12.