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.

Cottonfields Quarries

Other OS name in the Parish of Portland

Etymology

; the first part of the name ( Cotton - ) may represent an old p.n. from OE  (æt ) cotum ' (place) at the cottages ' , v. cot .

Places in the same Parish