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.

Cockin

Other OS name in the Parish of Kendal

Historical Forms

  • Cockan 1836 KCR

Etymology

, 1857OS , Cockan 1836KCR , v. cocc 2 ' cock, woodcock ' ; the second el . may be ME  kyne ' cleft, fissure ' or ON  kinn ' slope ' ( as in Barkin i, 24supra ) ; the name refers to a ravine .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name