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.

Cofton

Early-attested site in the Parish of East and West Dawlish

Historical Forms

Coctone 1282 Exon

Cokton(e) 1333 SR 1356 Ass 1386 Exon

Cofton 1289 Cl

Coffeton al. Caughton 1715 Recov

Etymology

For this name, v. Cofford infra 500.

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement

Dawlish