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.”