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.

Culsworthy

Early-attested site in the Parish of Abbots Bickington

Historical Forms

  • Colteshorda 1086 DB(Exch)
  • Coltesworde
  • Colteswurða 1175 P 1333 SR
  • Culteswurth 1250 Fees

Etymology

'Colt 's farm,' v. worþig . Colt is not recorded as a pers. name, but the name of the animal may well have been so used. Already in OE  we have a p.n. coltan beorh (BCS 734, an original charter), which shows a weak pers. name formed from this word.

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Major Settlement