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.

Cottons Fm

Early-attested site in the Parish of Normanton

Historical Forms

  • Codetune 1086 DB
  • Codintona, Codingtona, Codyntona, -tona, Codinton(e) 1157 Darley Hy2 Dale 1194 P 1219 FF 1216–36 Darley 1220 Cur
  • Codintona iuxta Derby 1330 Ass
  • Cotton 1357 IpmR 1415 DuLaMB 1476 IpmR
  • Cotton next Normanton 1545 DbAxxvii

Etymology

'Cod(d)a's farm', v. -ing-, tūn .

Places in the same Parish