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.

Colborne

Other OS name in the Parish of Chapel en le Frith

Historical Forms

  • Colborne c.1620 Hard
  • Coldbourne 1725 ShefJC

Etymology

, Colborne c. 1620Hard , Coldbourne 1725ShefJC , cf. Colborne Mose , 1640Map ( v. mos ) . The railway tunnel here is Cowburn Tunnel , cf. Cowburn 1818Plan and for the development v. supra lii , v. cald , burna .