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Survey of English Place-Names

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Carcut Beck

Other OS name in the Parish of Haughton le Skerne

Etymology

, cf. Caldecotes 1366×7 IPM, Surtees III231 , a pasture called Caldcottes 1506 IPM , Caldcottes next Sadbery 1512 ib , Caldcottes next Langnewton 1514 ib , ' cold cottages ' , OE  cald + cot , ME pl. cotes ; snow was seen to lie here while surrounding fields were bare , 24th January 1987 .