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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.

Coffue Drove

Other OS name in the Parish of Little Downham

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) . Cf. Corfew Acre c. 1840TA , perhaps involving a corruption of the first element of Kalfeycnol 13thElyCh , v. cealf , ēg , cnoll .