Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Caldecote 1086 DB 13 Vern

• Caldecote iuxta Shokelache 1317 AddCh

• Caldecate 1370 Plea

• Caldocode 1385 AD

• Caldecott Green & Caldecott Farm 1831 Bry

• Calecot c.1208 Dieul 1308–29 Whall

• Caldecotes 1344 ChGaol

• Calkote 1354 Chamb

• Calcote 1507 AD

• Calcot 1464 Outl 1505 ChRR 1727 Sheaf

• Calcote Green 1668–71 ib

• Caldcott 1615 ChCert

• Coale Coates 1665 Sheaf

Etymology

'Cold huts, cheerless shelters', from cald and cot , with grēne 2 and hall . This is a common type of English p.n. which also occurs several times in Denmark and Normandy. Professor Sørensen refers to K. Hald, Vore Stednavne (2nd ed., 1965) 159–60 where it is thought that the p.n. was brought to these countries from England by Danish vikings, alluding to temporary huts and dwellings, cold because they could not be heated, cf. the common type Coldharbour .