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.

Coldmire

Other OS name in the Parish of Holme Low

Historical Forms

  • Culdmyre (sic) 1647 HolmC

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is Culdmyre (sic)1647HolmC . ' Cold mýrr . ' Cf. Caldmyer Dick 1605Ct . v. dīc .