Coventry
Major Settlement in the Parish of Coventry
Historical Forms
- Couentre 1043 KCD916 17th ADiii 1341
- Coventria c.1045 KCD939 17th P 1158
- Coventreu 1086 DB
- Coventreia c.1160 BM
- Coventrie 1159 P
- (æt) Couæntree c.1050 BM
- Cofentreo 1057 ASC c.1060
- Cofantreo 1053 ASC c.1060
- Cofentreium c.1070 BM
- Couintre(a) 1151 BM 1167,1178,1182,1195 P 1442 ADiii
- Couintria 1158 P
- Coventry c.1235 ADiv 1254 Ipm 1329,1373 ADiii
- Covintry 1249 ADiii
- Kovintre 1274 ib
- Covingtre 1278 RH
- Covyngtre 1421 Pat
- Coventrey 1599 ADvi
Etymology
'Cofa 's tree,' cf. Covington (PN BedsHu 238) and Cobham (PN Sr 87).