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.

Great Cookley Hill, Little Cookley Hill

Early-attested site in the Parish of Bix

Etymology

Great Cookley Hill, Little Cookley Hill (both 6″). Cf. Cookley c. 1605Survey . This looks like the name which appears in Cookley Green in Swyncombe, about a mile away, v. 137. A wood might have stretched that far.