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.

Cockshoot

Other OS name in the Parish of Newnham

Historical Forms

  • Cocschute 13 Glouc
  • Cockshote 1595 Comm
  • Cockshute 1624 FF

Etymology

, Cocschute 13 Glouc (p), Cockshote 1595Comm , Cockshute 1624 FF , v. cocc-scīete ' glade where woodcockwere netted ' .