Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Cotes t.John BM 1397 Pat

• Cotes super Waldas apud 1275 RH

• Cotes super le Waus 1285 QW 1288 FF

• Cotes super le Wold 1340 NI

• Cottona 1223 Bracton

• Cotten on the Wolde 1372,1386 IpmR

• Coton Othewell 1403 ib

• Cottonleywold 1535 VE

• Cotton al. Coton Laywolde 1547 Pat

• Cotton Leywood al. Cotton Graunge al. Cotes super le Wold 1551 Pat

• Coton al. Cotes 1557 FF

Etymology

OE  cot(e) with the usual interchange of forms from the OE nominative and dative plural. The wold is the high ground between Swift and Avon, “these Hilly parts being then, and after called Wouldes , as many other of that kind are to this day in other Counties” (Dugdale 12).