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.

Cogdean Hundred

Hundred in the County of Dorset

Historical Forms

  • Cocdene hundret c.1086 GeldR
  • Chogden'hundredum 1182 P
  • hundr' de Cocdene 1212 Fees 1244,1268 Ass 1275 RH
  • Co(c)keden(e) 1244,1288 Ass 1554 AddCh
  • Co(c)kedenne 1280 Ass
  • Cogden(e) 1244 1247 FF
  • Cogdeane 1664 HTax
  • Kocdene 1249 FF
  • Gogden' 1268,1288 Ass
  • Cokden(e) 1288 1327 SR 1332 SR 1346 FA
  • Cokkeden 1303 ib
  • Co(o)kkedene 1512,1514 Pars
  • Cockden 1539 Ct

Etymology

named from Cogdean Elms in Corfe M. par. infra , the meeting-place of the hundred.