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.

Caldron Snout

Other OS name in the Parish of Dufton

Historical Forms

  • Cawdrey Snowthe 1588 Rent212

Etymology

, 1770 M , Cawdrey Snowthe 1588Rent 212 , a waterfall in the Tees above its junction with Maize Beck , from ME (ONFr ) caudron ' cauldron ' applied to the turbulent water at the base of the fall , and ME  snūte ' snout ' used of a projecting point of land ' .