English Place-name Society

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.

Caldwell

Major Settlement in the Parish of Stanwick

Historical Forms

  • Caldewell 1086 DB
  • Caudwell 1564 FF

Etymology

'Cold spring' v. cald , w(i)ella. Cf. frigidum fontem 1186–1205 YCh 1821. Leland says that Caldwell “is so caullid from a lattle font or spring, by the ruines of the old place, and so rennith into a beke halfe a quarter of a mile off.”

Places in the same Parish

Major Settlement