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.

Cuddenhay

Other OS name in the Parish of East Worlington

Historical Forms

  • Cod(d)yngeshaye 1330,1333 SR

Etymology

is Cod (d )yngeshaye 1330, 1333SR (p) . ' Cudding 's enclosure , ' v. (ge)hæg . The name may be of ME origin . Wallenberg (StudNP 2, 96) notes that there was a Thos Codyng in Chittlehampton in 1428 (FA) .