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.

Cockerham

Other OS name in the Parish of Burnsall

Historical Forms

  • Cockerhome 1806 ib
  • Cockerholm 1812 ib

Etymology

, 1725 PRBrn , Cockerhome 1806 ib, Cockerholm 1812 ib , ME  cocker ' a fighting man ' , ' a hay-maker ' , perhaps as a surname , holmr ' water-meadow ' .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name