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.

Cockermouth

Parish in the County of Cumberland

Etymology

Part of Papcastle (supra 308) was transferred to Cockermouth, and part of Cockermouth to Setmurthy (infra 433), in 1935.

Major Settlements

Other places in this Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name