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.

Cat's Common

Other OS name in the Parish of Smallburgh

Historical Forms

  • Catts Common 1838 TM

Etymology

( hamlet ) , Catts Common 1838TM ; cf. (manor of ) Catts 1566 NfA ( OE  catt , found as a surname from the 12th cent. , v. Reaney s.n. ) . Edmund Bokenham ( d. 1479 ) bought Catt 's manor from the executors of Henry Catt ( BlomefieldXI65 ) .