Cockpen, Midlothian

Cockpen is a parish in Midlothian, Scotland, situted at about N55:51:36 W3:04:48; 332500 663500.

Etymology

Cockpen is agreed to be a Cumbric name cognate with Welsh coch 'red' + pen 'peak'.[1]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Bethany Fox, 'The P-Celtic Place-Names of North-East England and South-East Scotland', The Heroic Age, 10 (2007), http://www.heroicage.org/issues/10/fox.html (appendix at http://www.heroicage.org/issues/10/fox-appendix.html).


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