Cotton Edmunds
Major Settlement in the Parish of Christleton
Historical Forms
- Parua Kotes c.1200 Vern
- Parua Cotis 1333 Dav
- Parva Coton' 13 Vern 1324,1342
- Parva Coton' iuxta Cristelton 1379 Eyre
- Parva Coten 1288 Court 1292,1293 Plea
- Edmunds Cotton 1503 Plea 1613 ChRR
- Cotton de parte Edmundi 1504 Orm2
- Cotton Edmunds 1508 ChRR
- Cotton Edmonds 1519 1724 NotCestr
- Cotton St Edmund 1537 Plea
Etymology
Cf. Cotton Abbotts 111supra , v. parva . The manorial affix is from Edmund de Coton 1344Vern , lord of this moiety, cf. Orm2 ii785.The intrusive 'Saint' is matched by that in Mottram St Andrew 1202, and Lach Dennis 2186.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Other OS name
- Abbot's Well
- Birchbank Fm
- Birch Heath, Birch Heath Lane
- Brown Heath
- Bush Fm
- Christleton Bank & Christleton Hall
- Finisfield Cottage
- Green Lane
- Heathfield Ho
- Hollow Fm
- Laneside
- Little Heath
- Mill Lane
- Old Hall
- Plough Lane
- Quarry Bridge
- Rake Lane
- Rowton Bridge
- Street Way
- Watling Street'
- White Gate Fm
- Woodbank
- Cotton Edmunds Fm, Cotton Fm, Cotton Hall & Cotton Lane
- Hockenhull Platts
- Mill Lane
- Plough Lane
- Stamford Mill
- Littleton-Hill
- Old Hall(lost)
- Pearl Lane
- Vicar's Cross
- Watling Street'
- Brook Lodge
- Claypits Fm
- Elm Bank
- Gorsehall
- Holly Bank
- Moorfields, Moor Lane
- Promised-land Fm
- Ridges Lane
- Ridgeway Fm