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.

East Coatham

Early-attested site in the Parish of Kirkleatham

Historical Forms

Cotum 1123–8 Guis

Est 13 BylE 1404 YI

Oustcotum 1181 P

Cotun 1165–76 YCh

Cotom 1231 FF 1443 Test

Etymology

v. cot . East (OE east, ON austr) in relation to

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Major Settlement