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.

Cotcliffe

Major Settlement in the Parish of Leake

Historical Forms

Koteclyf 1285 KI

Cotcliffe 1581 FF

Etymology

'Bank by the cottage' v. cot , clif .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Major Settlement