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.

Coalburn Hill

Other OS name in the Parish of South Wingfield

Historical Forms

  • Colburmesegge (sic) 1309 Darley

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) , Colburmesegge (sic)1309 Darley , ' the edge nearCoalburn ' , v. ecg , the hill being named from the stream below it , which itself is ' cool stream ' , v. cōl 2 , burna .