Coleshill Fm and Coles Hill
Early-attested site in the Parish of Betchworth
Historical Forms
- Cole 1327 SR
Etymology
For the two other place-names Zachrisson suggests a word *coll , meaning a hill. Even if there were evidence for its existence, we should be faced with the extraordinary phenomenon that whenever it is found as a first element it always forms a genitival compound, but there is no real evidence for its existence.Zachrisson cites a form atte Colle given in PN Wo 281, but fails to note the identification there suggested with a place called Colley. If Colle were really from coll , 'a hill,' it could not give rise to Colley, for there would then be no explanation of the disyllable.
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
- The Borough and Borough Bridge
- Highridge Wood
- Penfold's Copse
- Puddinghole
- Tweed Copse and Lane
- Weir Mead Fm
- Broome Park
- Brockhamhurst Fm
- Wonham Mill