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.

Corntown

Other OS name in the Parish of Cornwood

Historical Forms

  • Cornwodaton 1330 SR

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is Corne Towne t. Jas 1, Cornetowne 1670Recov , and is perhaps identicalwith Cornwodaton 1330SR (p) , v. supra 268 .