Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Climbicotes, Clinbicotes 1086 DB

• Kib(b)lincotes 1190,1192 P 1190–1210 YCh1103–4

• Kibelincotes 1294 Percy

• Kiblecotis 1246 Ass

• Kib(e)lingcotes, Kyb(e)lingcotes t.Hy3 BM 1285 KI 1423 Baildon

• Kybellingcotes 1308 BevAct

• Kibb(e)lingcotes, Kybb(e)lingcotes 13th Warter 1281,1287 YI 14th Percy

• Kiblingecotes 1279 YI

• Kybelingekotes 1287 YI

• Kyp(p)lyngcote 1301 Baildon

• Coottes, Coottes super le Wold 1549 YD

• Kyp(p)lyncotes 1565,1575 FF

• Kobelyngcotes 1333 FF

Etymology

'Cottages of Cyb (b )el or of Cyb (b )el 's people,' v. ing , ingtun , cote . OE  Cybbel is not on independent record, but it occurs in OE  cybles weorðig (BCS 455) and Kibblesworth (PN NbDu 126).It is a diminutive of the OE  Cybba proposed for Guy's Cliffe (PN Wa 264), and an unmutated form Cubbel occurs in Cublington (PN Bk 78).