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.

Cockshoot Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Dursley

Historical Forms

Cockshoot hill 1791 GR

Etymology

, Cockshoot hill 1791GR 1309 , v. cocc-scīete ' glade for netting wood-cock ' .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Woodmancote

Other OS name

Major Settlement

Dursley