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.

Cudley Court

Early-attested site in the Parish of St Martins without Worcester

Historical Forms

  • æt Cudinclea 974 BCS1298 11th
  • Cudelei 1086 DB c.1086 EveB 1190
  • Cudelega, Cudele c.1086 EveA 1190 RH 1276
  • Codeley(a) c.1225 WoCh 1275,1327 SR
  • Codeley(a) juxta Spechesleye 1312 FF
  • Cudley 1610 QSR

Etymology

'Cūda 's clearing,' v. leah . The pers. name and the second element are connected by the same use of ing as in the ingtun names.

Places in the same Parish