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.

Cockerham Gardens

Other OS name in the Parish of Silkstone

Historical Forms

  • Collegrimewellerodes c.1200,13 Pont
  • Cockram Well 1778 Fairb 1841 O.S.

Etymology

, probably identical with Collegrimewellerodes c. 1200, 13 Pont, Cockram Well 1778 Fairb, 1841 O.S. , ' Colgrim's well ' , v. wella , rod 1 ; the pers. n. is ON  Kolgrímr , well - evidenced in the Danelaw (Feilitzen 306, NP84) .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site