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.

Cockcrow Copse

Other OS name in the Parish of Fifehead Neville

Historical Forms

  • Cockrow 1840 TA

Etymology

, Cockrow 1840TA , possibly from cocc-rodu ' clearing where woodcock were netted ' , with loss of final - d and modern rationalization of -row to -crow .