Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Cotes 1086 DB 1182 P 1221,1232 Ass

• in vico de Cotes 1247 Ass

• Cotis 1315 Ipm

• Cota 1123 Warwick

• Coton 1486 Ipm

• Cotton 1504 ib

• Cawton Ende 1525 Rental

• Cottenende 1545 LP

• Cotes al. Coten end 1656 FF

Etymology

'The cottage(s),' v. cot(e). “In the Conq. Survey it is written Cotes , which in our old English signifies the same with Domus ” (Dugdale 372). The earlier spellings go back to the OE nominative, the later to the dative plural. Cf. Coton (supra 104). In the 12th century there seems to have been a 'Hundred' of Cotes (Coteshundredo 1182, 1183, 1185, Cotehundredo 1183, 1185 P), but it is not known what area this covered. In 1232 (Ass ) it is called hundred de Cotes , quod voc ' suburbium de Warr '. See Addenda l.