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Survey of English Place-Names

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Cudworth

Major Settlement in the Parish of Royston

Historical Forms

  • Cutheworth(e) Cuthewrth 12 Brett 13 YDi 1274 WCR 1298 YDx 1302 1342 ADi
  • Cuttheworth 1346,1354 ADi,ii
  • Cudeuurdia(m) 1180–90 YCh l.12 Nost65d
  • Cudewrda 1200 Brett
  • Cudewrth(e) 1200–14 YCh 1233,1268 Ebor
  • Chudewrda 1186 Brett
  • Cuthuurthe 1208–37 Nost65d
  • Cuthwrd 13 ADii
  • Cuthw(o)rth 1333 1418 YI
  • Cothew(o)rth(e) 13 ADi 1260–80 Bodl44 1329 FF 1331 Ass5 1366 YDi 1434 ADiii
  • Cotheworde 1297 YI
  • Cootheworth 1363 Edmunds
  • Cothworth 1395 Brett
  • Cotteworth 1259 Ass
  • Cotworth 1346 ADii
  • Cudworth 1371 Brett 1559 FF

Etymology

'Cūða's enclosure', from the OE  pers.n. Cūða (Redin 46), with vowel shortening in ME, and worð. The pers.n. sometimes had the form Cuda in OE (Redin 62).

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site