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.

Cornforth Holmes

Other OS name in the Parish of King's Cliffe

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is the name of almshouses endowed by Mrs Cornforth in 1891 (VCH ii, 584) .