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.

Cop Stone

Other OS name in the Parish of Askham

Historical Forms

  • Cop- 1859 OS

Etymology

( OS Top Stone ) , Cop -1859OS , a megalithic stone which may have been one of a circle of stones ( RCHM 27 ) , v. copp , stān .