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.

Cockshot Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Kendal

Historical Forms

  • Cockshot 1836 KCR

Etymology

, Cockshot 1836KCR , v. cocc-scyte ' glade where woodcock werenetted ' .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name