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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.

Coton Fm

Early-attested site in the Parish of Wardington

Etymology

Coton Fm. Cf. Cothamhul early Hy 3AOMB , Cotes 1316 FA, Cottes alias Cotton 1551–2Survey . Coton alias Cotes appears frequently in the 17thBodl . The modern name is from cotum , the dative plural of cot(e).

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement