Coldham
Field in the Parish of Illston on the Hill
Historical Forms
- Coldham 1594 ChancP 1594 ChancP
- Coldham Close 1663 Nichols
Etymology
Coldham 1594, Coldham Close 1663 (v. cald; with hām or hamm; poss. in origin, a lost early Anglo - Saxon settlement conforming to the pattern of such sites in close relationship to Roman roads, in this case Via Devana (Gartree Road), v. Barrie Cox,' The significance of the distribution of English place - names in – hām in the Midlands and East Anglia', JEPNS 5 (1971 – 2), 15 – 73, reprinted in Place - Name Evidence for the Anglo - Saxon Invasion and Scandinavian Settlements, ed. Kenneth Cameron, Nottingham 1975, 55 – 98)
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
- Ashlands
- Barn Close Spinney
- Barn Fm, Selby's Lodge
- Bleak Ho
- Burton Brook
- Carlton Curlieu Manor Ho
- The Cottage
- Fourteen Acre Spinney
- Fox and Goose
- Foxhole Spinney
- Galby Rd
- The Hall
- Illston Grange
- Illston Lane
- Illston Lodge
- Limepit Fm
- Long Plantation
- Main St
- Manor Fm
- New Inn Lane
- Noseley Rd
- St Michael's Church
- Thistley Close Cottages
- Three Gates
- Turner's Barn Fm
- Wade Lodge
- Washpit Spinney