Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Caggeypole 1811 OS

Etymology

, Caggeypole 1811 OS , first el . dial . caggy ' decaying; tainted, etc ' , perhaps related to the vb . ( also dial . ) cag listed by Barnes 53 with the meaning ' to surfeit; cloy,clog ' , thus no doubt with reference to ' a stagnant pool,choked with (decayed) vegetation ' , v. pōl 1 ' pool, pond, poolin a river ' ; the farm lies close to Filley Brook ( ' the foul ordirty brook ' , v. RNs. infra ) , so the name may have referred to an ox - bow lake or the like ; note the change in the course of the brook indicated by the present position of the par . bdy just S of the farm .