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Survey of English Place-Names

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Cockshot Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Keswick

Historical Forms

  • Cockshut-hill 1770 Young
  • wooded hill of Cockshot 1789 Clarke

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is Cockshut-hill 1770Young, wooded hill of Cockshot 1789 Clarke . v. infra cockshot .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement