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Survey of English Place-Names

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Great Coggeshall and Little Coggeshall

Major Settlement in the Parish of Great and Little Coggeshall

Historical Forms

  • Kockeshale 1052–66 ASWills 14th
  • Bocceshale ib.
  • Coghes(s)hala 1086 DB
  • Coghes(s)hale 1212 RBE
  • Cogsale 1121–36 WDB 1354 Pap 1386 Pat
  • C(h)oggeshal(a), C(h)oggeshal(e) 1181(p),1187–92 P
  • C(h)oggeshal(e) Parva 1201 FF
  • C(h)oggeshalle 1203 ChR 1256 FF 1274 RH 1291 Tax
  • Coggishal(e) 1260 Pat 1291 Tax 1330 Londin
  • Coggishall 1578 Lancs
  • Koggeshale near Branketre 1273 Ipm
  • Cogeshale 1275 RH 1336 ADi
  • Coggesale 1352 Pap
  • Cogsall 1487 W'stowW
  • Cogshull or Cogshale 1594 N
  • Gog(g)es(h)al(e) 1221 Bracton 1248 Ass 1405 FF
  • Gog(g)esholde 1545 LP
  • Cokgeshal' 1248 Ass
  • Cok(k)eshale 1304 Ipm 1328 Ch
  • Coksale 1412 FA
  • Kocsall 1540 LP
  • Cocksall 1570 Lancs
  • Cox(h)all t.Eliz ib
  • Coxhull 1601 BM

Etymology

Probably 'Cocc 's nook,' v. healh . For the French g for c v. IPN 114. See Addenda supra lxi.

Places in the same Parish

None