Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Coblincote 1086 DB

• Cubelintone 1154 Eyns 1200 Ass 1227,1247

• Cublicumba 1178 P

• Cublintone 1237–40 Fees

• Coblington 1238 Gross 1284 Ipm 1347 Ipm

• Cubelington 1241 Ass

• Cobelinton 1262 Ass 1348 Ipm

• Cobelentone 1265 Misc

• Kobelington 1265 Pat

• Coblintone 1284 FA

• Cublyngtone 1302 FA 1396 Pat

• Coblyntone 1339 Pat

• Coblyngton 1446 IpmR

• Holcombe in 1680 (Terr)

Etymology

A pers. name Cub (b )a is not on record in OE but is implied in the medieval forms of Cubley (Db). A mutated form *Cybba must be the origin of Kibworth (Lei). Such a name may well have arisen as a pet-name, derived either from the name Cufa (v. Cowley supra ) , with the common gemination of consonant found in such names, or from the pers. name Cuð - beorht , with assimilation of b to bb . There is an OE  name Cuba but this is simply another spelling of Cufa , b representing the bilabial continuant and not the stop b at all. It will not therefore help to explain this name. From a diminutive Cubbel must have come the p.n. Cubbelingtun , 'Cubbel's farm,' with an alternative form Cubelingcot (u ), 'Cubbel's cottages,' if the DB form is correct. It is possible that the form Cublicumba also refers to this place. There is mention of a Holcombe in 1680 (Terr ). If, as is probable, Kipling Cotes (Y) contains a patronymic from an OE  Cybbel ,it supplies further evidence of the existence of an OE  Cubbel . The pair of names Cubbel — Cybbel will then stand to each other in the same relation as Cubba —Cybba . The DB Climbicote cannot stand against the evidence of the later forms, esp. Kybblingcotes from the Percy Cartulary.