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.

Copshrews (Fm)

Early-attested site in the Parish of Beaconsfield

Historical Forms

  • Cops Row 1766 J
  • Copse Row 1826 B

Etymology

Apparently so called from a row of trees in a coppice. The modern form is corrupt.

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Major Settlement