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.

Cotra

Other OS name in the Parish of Grasmere

Historical Forms

  • Kaltre c.1280 Furnii,575

Etymology

, possibly identical with Kaltre c. 1280 Furn ii, 575 , the name of a hillside below Steel Fell , ' cold,exposed tree ' , v. cald , trēow(tré) , cf. Collingwood in CW xviii , 101 .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name