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.

Cockshead

Field in the Parish of Dowdeswell

Historical Forms

1838 TA

South Combes 1562 Rogers

Etymology

Cockshead; middle Comb & great Comb(South Combes 1562, v. cumb)

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement

Dowdeswell