"just going up the Brig."") One source states 'Coatbridge' is either derived from the Middle English 'cote', (cottage) or from the Old Welsh 'coed' meaning 'wood'. An alternative explanation is that from around the 13th century the local area was owned by the Colt family, sometimes known as Coats, and their estate generated place-names such as Coatbridge, Coatdyke, Coathill and Coatbank. Drummond and Smith suggest the name derives from the granting of land to Ranulphus le Colt around the time of the 12th century. However, Early Scots had vocalized to by the 16th century and subsequently diphthongised to in Modern"
"Coat (clothing) A coat is a garment worn by either sex, for warmth or fashion. Coats typically have long sleeves and are open down the front, closing by means of buttons, zippers, hook-and-loop fasteners, toggles, a belt, or a combination of some of these. Other possible features include collars, shoulder straps and hoods. ""Coat"" is one of the earliest clothing category words in English, attested as far back as the early Middle Ages. (""See also"" Clothing terminology.) The Oxford English Dictionary traces ""coat"" in its modern meaning to c. 1300, when it was written ""cote."" The word coat stems from"
"percentage of Irish names in the country. Reportedly more than 28% of adults in Coatbridge had names with Irish origins. Ironically, Barra, the most Scottish place in Scotland is overwhelmingly Catholic compared to Coatbridge's slight majority. In 2008 Coatbridge was subject of an hour-long RTÉ documentary regarding the Irish culture of the town. Perhaps the most obvious link with between Coatbridge and Ireland are the numerous Celtic F.C. supporters' clubs operating in the area. Phil Coles Celtic supporters club holds a legendary place in the folklore of Coatbridge Celtic supporters. Coatbridge is noted as a particular hotbed of Celtic Support."
"Some dialect words now appear mainly, or solely, in place names, such as ""batch"" (North Somerset, = hill but more commonly applied to Coalmine spoil heaps e.g. Camerton batch, Farrington batch, Braysdown batch), ""tyning"", ""hoe"" (a bay). These are not to be confused with fossilised Brythonic or Cornish language terms, for example, ""-coombe"" is quite a common suffix in West Country place names (not so much in Cornwall), and means a ""valley"". Owing to the West Country's agricultural history, the sound of the West Country accent has for centuries been associated with farming and, as an effect, with lack of"
"from ""Ket"", relating to the deity Ceridwen; ""ing"" a water meadow; and ""ham"" meaning home; the name corresponding to ""habitation in the water meadows of Ket"". The name has also been suggested to derive from a man's name ""Cotta"" plus ""-inga-"" (OE belonging to/named after) and ""ham""; corresponding to ""habitation of cotta's people"". Archaic spellings include ""Cotingeham"" (Domesday, 1086), and ""Cotingham"" (Charter, 1156; John Leland, 1770). The pre-conquest owner of Cottingham was Gamel, the son of Osbert, during the reign of Edward the Confessor in the 11th century. After the Norman conquest the land was in the possession of Hugh"
"Corbridge Corbridge is a village in Northumberland, England, west of Newcastle and east of Hexham. Villages nearby include Halton, Acomb, Aydon and Sandhoe. Corbridge was known to the Romans as something like ""Corstopitum"" or ""Coriosopitum"", and wooden writing tablets found at Vindolanda suggest it was probably locally called ""Coria"" (meaning a tribal centre). According to Bethany Fox, the early attestations of the English name ""Corbridge"" 'show variation between ""Cor""- and ""Col""-, as in the earliest two forms, ""Corebricg"" and ""Colebruge"", and there has been extensive debate about what its etymology may be. Some relationship with the Roman name ""Corstopitum"" seems"
"Oxford coat of arms); Hertford, the county town of Hertfordshire (the ford where harts cross or ""deer crossing""); Ammanford (a ford on the River Amman); and Stratford (a ford on a Roman road). Similarly, the German word ""Furt"" (as in Frankfurt, the ford of the Franks; Ochsenfurt, synonymous to Oxford; Schweinfurt, a ford where swine crossed the river; and Klagenfurt, literally ""ford of complaints"") and the Dutch ""voorde"" (as in Vilvoorde, Coevorden, Zandvoort, or Amersfoort) are cognates with the same meaning, all deriving from Proto-Indo-European ""*pértus"" 'crossing'. This is the source of Brythonic and Gaulish ""ritus"" (modern Welsh ""rhyd""; the"
"In recent decades, research on Celtic toponymy, driven by the development of Celtic studies and particularly by Andrew Breeze and Richard Coates, has complicated this picture: more names in England and southern Scotland have Brittonic, or occasionally Latin, etymologies than was once thought. Earlier scholars often did not notice this because they were unfamiliar with Celtic languages. For example, ""Leatherhead"" was once etymologised as Old English ""lēod-rida"", meaning ""place where people [can] ride [across the river]"". But ""lēod"" has never been discovered in place-names before or since, and *""ride"" 'place suitable for riding' was merely speculation. Coates showed that Brittonic"
"The area around the eastern end of Cooks Lane is also often referred to as ""Bacon's End"". Fordbridge gets its name from the crossing over the River Cole on Cooks Lane, which was referenced to as ""Ford Bridge"" on 19th century OS maps. This name suggests this site was previously a ford, but eventually a bridge was built on the site of that ford, thus giving the bridge and ultimately the civil parish its name. Fordbridge lies in-between a number of schools in the surrounding areas. Schools in and around the local area include: Also close by in Smith's Wood"
"locally referred to by the name of Barnsdale because it was the predominant settlement in the forest. Wentbridge is mentioned in an early Robin Hood ballad, entitled, ""Robin Hood and the Potter"", which reads, ""Y mete hem bot at Went breg,' syde Lyttyl John"". And, while Wentbridge is not directly named in ""A Gest of Robyn Hode"", the poem does appear to make a cryptic reference to the locality by depicting a poor knight explaining to Robin Hood that he 'went at a bridge' where there was wrestling'. A commemorative Blue Plaque has been placed on the bridge that crosses"
"to the council took place on May 7, 2015. The exact etymology of the name has been debated. Several toponymists argue for a derivation from the Cumbric or Welsh ""pen"" 'head, chief, end' (both noun and adjective) + Cumbric 'rid', Welsh ""rhyd"" 'ford'. On this basis, the name would mean 'chief ford', 'hill ford', 'ford end' or Whaley's suggestion: 'the head of the ford' or 'headland by the ford'. Penrith, however, lies around from the nearest crossing point on the River Eamont at Eamont Bridge. An alternative has been suggested consisting of the same ""pen"" element meaning 'head, end, top'"
"and Coatbridge became a popular destination for vast numbers of largely unskilled Irish workers arriving in Scotland. There have been centuries of coal workings across the area. In 1791, there was disaster at Coats Pit when the canal burst and six miners were drowned. A large part of modern-day Coatbridge has been undermined by underground coal workings. The modern day car parks skirting both sides of the South Circular Road are so undermined that no sizable buildings can be built. Dick’s Pond in Carnbroe (labelled Orchard Farm Pool by Google Maps but never called that locally) consists of the hollow"
"the Old English word 'cocc' meaning 'moor-cock', 'wild bird' or 'hill', with 'burn' derived from the old word 'burna' meaning 'brook' or 'stream'. There are several possible candidates for this geographical name including: a former 'Cokoueburn' district in early medieval Roxburghshire; a place called 'Calkesburne' that was mentioned in a charter from 1162 to 1190 that awarded the land of Hermanston in East Lothian; the hill called Cockburn Law, north of present-day Duns in Berwickshire, which was fortified in Iron Age times; and the town of Cockburnspath, originally known as 'Kolbrand's Path', on the eastern coast of Scotland. There are"
"Coatbridge Coatbridge (, ) is a town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, about east of Glasgow city centre, set in the central Lowlands. The town, with neighbouring Airdrie, is part of the Greater Glasgow urban area. While the earliest known settlement of the area dates back to the Stone Age era, the founding of the town can be traced to the 12th century, when a Royal Charter was granted to the monks of Newbattle Abbey by King Malcolm IV. Coatbridge, along with its neighbour Airdrie, forms the area known as the Monklands. In the last years of the 18th century, the"
"Old French and then Latin ""cottus."" It originates from the Proto-Indo-European word for woolen clothes. An early use of ""coat"" in English is coat of mail (chainmail), a tunic-like garment of metal rings, usually knee — or mid-calf length. The medieval and renaissance coat (generally spelled ""cote"" by costume historians) is a midlength, sleeved men's outer garment, fitted to the waist and buttoned up the front, with a full skirt in its essentials, not unlike the modern coat. By the eighteenth century, overcoats had begun to supplant capes and cloaks as outerwear, and by the mid-twentieth century the terms ""jacket"""
"as mature trees in 1980. The Catacol whitebeam was discovered in 2007 and steps have been taken to protect the two known specimens. The Roman historian Tacitus refers to the ""Clota"" meaning the Clyde. The derivation is not certain but probably from the Brythonic ""Clouta"" which became ""Clut"" in Old Welsh. The name's literal meaning is ""wash"" but probably refers to the idea of a river goddess being ""the washer"" or ""strongly flowing one"". Bute's derivation is also uncertain. ""Bót"" is the Norse name and this is the Old Irish word for ""fire"", possibly a reference to signal fires. The"
"root ""kant"" or ""cant"" meaning edge or rim thus ""coastal district,"" or ""corner-land"", ""land on the edge"" thus having the same probable derivation as the name of the English county of ""Kent"". Cantabria is a mountainous and coastal region, with important natural resources. It has two distinct areas which are well differentiated morphologically: Towards the south are higher mountains, the tops of which form the watershed between the drainage basins of the Rivers Ebro, Duero and the rivers that flow into the Bay of Biscay. These peaks generally exceed 1,500 m from the Pass of San Glorio in the west"
"census. The name may suggest a settlement or farm known for the hunting of woodcock or game birds, However, the prefix Cock- is not uncommon in place-names, but its meaning is doubtful. The name is spelt Coctune in the Domesday Book. It is generally found on or near hills, say Napier and Stevenson. It may be a personal name, Cocca; it may be the name of the bird; or it may (as in Old Norse) mean 'throat,' which would geographically be 'a narrow gorge, valley, or pass'. The manor of Coughton is recorded in the Domesday Book when it was"
"of the wool at that time was sold to Italian merchants. The area still preserves numerous large, handsome Cotswold Stone ""wool churches"". The affluent area in the 21st century has attracted wealthy Londoners and others who own second homes there or have chosen to retire to the Cotswolds. The name Cotswold is popularly attributed the meaning ""sheep enclosure in rolling hillsides"", incorporating the term, ""wold"", meaning hills. Compare also the Weald from the Saxon/German word ""Wald"" meaning 'forest'. However, the English Place-Name Society has for many years accepted that the term Cotswold is derived from ""Codesuualt"" of the 12th century"
"Saxon, Old English word. The first element is the British word 'briga', which appears in modern Welsh as 'bre'. This is the most common of a number of Celtic place-name elements signifying a hill. It appears in various combinations, but sometimes on its own, as in Bray. Margaret Gelling, a specialist in West Midland toponyms, suggested that it was often misunderstood by the Anglo-Saxons as a name rather than as a common noun. So they thought they had come upon a place called by the natives Brig or Bre, rather than simply a hill. This is why the word is"
"Cottage A cottage is, typically, a small house. It may carry the connotation of being an old or old-fashioned building. In modern usage, a cottage is usually a modest, often cosy dwelling, typically in a rural or semi-rural location. The word comes from the architecture of England, where it originally referred to a house with ground floor living space and an upper floor of one or more bedrooms fitting under the eaves. In British English the term now denotes a small dwelling of traditional build, although it can also be applied to modern construction designed to resemble traditional houses (""mock"
"topographic words occur in many areas of England, such as: ""caer"" 'fort', as in the Cumbrian city of Carlisle; ""pen"" 'hill' as in the Cumbrian town of Penrith and Pendle Hill in Lancashire; ""afon"" 'river' as in the Rivers Avon in Warwickshire, Devon and Somerset; and ""mynydd"" 'mountain', as in Long Mynd in Shropshire. The name 'Cumbria' is derived from the same root as Cymru, the Welsh name for Wales, meaning 'the land of comrades'. Most French people identify with the ancient Gauls and are well aware that they were a people that spoke Celtic languages and lived Celtic ways"
"""leat"" is cognate with ""let"" in the sense of ""allow to pass through"". Other names for the same thing include ""fleam"" (probably a leat supplying water to a mill that did not have a millpool). In parts of northern England, for example around Sheffield, the equivalent word is ""goit"". In southern England, a leat used to supply water for water-meadow irrigation is often called a ""carrier"", ""top carrier"", or ""main"". Leats generally start some distance (a few hundred yards, or perhaps several miles) above the mill or other destination, where an offtake or sluice gate diverts a proportion of the"
"Scot and lot Scot and lot is a phrase common in the records of English medieval boroughs, referring to local rights and obligations. The term ""scot"" comes from the Old English word ""sceat"", meaning a sceat, an ordinary coin in Anglo-Saxon times, equivalent to the later penny. In Anglo-Saxon times, a payment was levied locally to cover the cost of establishing drainage, and embankments, of low-lying land, and observing them to ensure they remain secure. This payment was typically a sceat, so the levy itself gradually became to be called ""sceat"". In burghs, ""sceat"" was levied to cover maintenance of"
"earliest map showing Coatbridge is by Timothy Pont published in Johan Blaeu's ""Nether warde of clyds-dail"" (1654). The districts of Dunpelder, Gartsherrie, Langloan, Kirkwood, Kirkshaws and Whifflet are all evident. The present day neighbourhoods of Coatbridge are Barrowfield, Blairhill, Brownshill, Carnbroe, Cliftonhill, Cliftonville, Coatbank, Coatdyke, Cuparhead, Drumpellier, Dunbeth, Dundyvan, Espieside, Gartsherrie, Greenhill, Greenend, Kirkshaws, Kirkwood, Langloan, Old Monkland, Rosehall, Shawhead, Sikeside, Summerlee, Sunnyside, Townhead and Whifflet. Victoria Park is a relatively new area close the town centre which was built on a brownfield site once occupied by heavy industry. The Blairhill and Dunbeth neighbourhoods are part of the ""Blairhill and"
"to the O'Hagans' predominance in the region. According to tradition, O'Hagan inaugurated O'Neill by putting on his slipper hence the shoe always appears in the Coat of Arms. O'Hagan Gaelic meaning on coat of arms. ""Vincere aut mori"" meaning to either conquer or die. Quoted from family coat of arms crest/shield. The inauguration is said to have taken place at the coronation chair on the O'Hagan lands at Tullyhogue Fort. In the 16th century the 'Leac na Rí', or Stone of the Kings, inauguration stone, which is said to be blessed by Saint Patrick, was embedded in the coronation chair."
"Caput Caput, a Latin word meaning literally ""head"" and by metonymy ""top"", has been borrowed in a variety of English words, including capital, captain, and decapitate. The surname Caputo, common in the Campania region of Italy, comes from the appellation used by some Roman military generals. A variant form has surfaced more recently in the title ""Capo"" (or ""Caporegime""), the head of ""La Cosa Nostra"". The French language converted 'caput' into ""chief"", ""chef"", and ""chapitre"", later borrowed in English as ""chapter"". The central settlement in an Anglo-Saxon multiple estate was called a ""caput"", (short for ""caput baroniae"", see below). The"
"refer to buildings and other manmade features. They often include forms such as ""-town"", ""-ton"", ""-ville"", ""-borough"", ""-bury"", ""bridge"", ""mill"", ""castle"", ""abbey"", ""church"", etc. However, forms such as ""hill"", ""mount"", ""mont"", ""wood"", ""bay"", ""brook"" etc. are not uncommon. Some placenames that seem to come from English are in fact anglicized Irish names modified by folk etymology. Examples include Longford (), Upperland (from ""Áth an Phoirt Leathain"" meaning ""ford of the broad (river) bank"") and Forkhill (from ""Foirceal"" meaning ""trough""). The Lowland Scots who settled during the Plantation of Ulster also contributed to place-names in the north of Ireland, particularly in"
"certain situations however, apparent instances of Kirk are, in their first element, from the Scots Gaelic word ""Cathair"" meaning a seat or fortress. In England In France In North America Kirk (placename element) Kirk is found as an element in many place names in Scotland, England, and North America. It is derived from ""kirk"", meaning ""church"". In Scotland, it is sometimes an English translation from a Scots Gaelic form involving ""cille"" or ""eaglais"", both words for 'church'. Rarely it is found in Anglicisations of Continental European placenames which originally had Dutch ""kerk"" or a related form. Kirk by itself is"
"Denmark. The bridge is usually envisioned as connecting Hov (a village south of Odder in the Aarhus area) with Samsø and Kalundborg. The International Hydrographic Organization defines the limits of the ""Kattegat, Sound and Belts"" (that is, the Kattegat, Øresund, Great Belt, and Little Belt) as follows: According to ""Den Store Danske Encyklopædi"" and ""Nudansk Ordbog"", the name derives from the Dutch words ' (cat) and ' (hole, gate). It derives from late medieval navigation jargon, in which captains of the Hanseatic trading fleets would compare the Danish Straits to a hole so narrow that even a cat would have"
"more common. The origin of the name is uncertain. It may be of Hiberno-Norse origin, with second element Old Norse ""island""; Donnchadh Ó Corráin suggests ""foot island"", from its position at the mouth of the River Lee down from Cork city; some medieval references have an ""-r-"" in the name. Ó Corráin is sceptical of proposed Gaelic etymologies, ""sod house"", ""warm sod"", and ""decayed/withered"". Fota House was the former home of the Smith-Barry family (Earls of Barrymore since 1627), descendants of Philip de Barry. The de Barry family came from Wales as part of the Norman invasion of Ireland. The"
"north-eastern corner is Navax Point (, meaning ""head of the autumn dwelling""). The cliffs between the two points are approximately above sea level. On the northern side of the headland are two coves named Mutton Cove and Kynance Cove (, meaning ""cove of the autumn dwelling"") beyond which the Nathaga Rocks (, meaning ""milky ones"") lie off Navax Point. On the eastern side of the headland are Castle Giver Cove (, meaning ""cove of the goat's castle"") and Fishing Cove. South of Navax Point is an area of heath named The Knavocks (, meaning ""autumn dwelling"") which is managed by"
"valley, and ""broc(e)"" meaning brook, and simply refers to its location in a valley beside a brook. The name is variously presented as ""Combroke"" (on the road signs at entry to the village, and for official purposes by Stratford-on-Avon District Council), or ""Combrook"" (as used by Warwickshire County Highways Department and the Royal Mail), or even ""Combrooke"", as used by Severn Trent Water. Historical variations have included Cumbroc and Combroce (13th century rolls), Cumbrok (Dugdale 1656), Combebrooke (1658 church flagon) and Cumbroke (1817 map). Combrook Combrook (also spelt Combroke and - more rarely - Combrooke) is a small village of"