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.

Cold Harbour

Early-attested site in the Parish of Lower Heyford

Etymology

Cold Harbour is on the boundary between Lower Heyford and Kirtlington, and is very likely a corruption of Caldhememere , which occurs early 13thSt John in a charter concerning Kirtlington.'Boundary of the people of Caulcott': v. hǣme for the Oxfordshire names formed from that word and the first element of another name.Final element (ge)mǣre. For the modern name v. PN Sr 406–10 and infra Fan: it is Coal or borough Cottage 1822 O.S.

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement