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.

Cofford Fm

Early-attested site in the Parish of Kenton

Historical Forms

  • on coccford 1044 OSFacsii,Exeterxii
  • Cokford 1311 FF

Etymology

This place and Cofton and Cockwood supra 493–4 may all take their name from the one stream on which they stand. For the possibility of Cocc as a stream-name, denoting the 'red' stream (Welsh coch ), v. Ekwall RN 83.