Coxwell
Early-attested site in the Parish of Exbourne
Historical Forms
- Cokkyswall 1330 SR
- Cokkeswall 1377 Cl
- Cokyswill 1461 IpmR
Etymology
This may be 'Cocc 's spring' or 'spring of the (wood)cock,' though as Wallenberg notes (StudNP 2, 98), the wall-forms suggest OE weall1. In that case the sense is obscure.It has a parallel, possibly more easily explicable, in Coxwall supra 130.