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.

Cockner

Early-attested site in the Parish of Farnham

Historical Forms

  • (in bosco de) Cokenore 1263 Ass
  • de Wrecclesham t.Eliz,1683 MinAcct

Etymology

Cockner (lost) is Cokenore 1245, 1288, 1346, Kokenore 1298Rental , (in bosco de ) Cokenore 1263Ass , Cockner in decenn . de Wrecclesham t. Eliz, 1683MinAcct . This is the name of a wood frequently mentioned in Farnham Records. It may have been the old name for the large wood, part of which still exists, between Farnham and Tilford. The meaning is 'Cocca 's slope or bank,' v. ora and cf. Cocking (PN Sx 16).