Oct. 19. 1850.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



341 



Knox, by the catchers, "harbour birds, meaning 

 that they have sojourned or harboured, as the local 

 expression is, here during the season. Does not 

 this, with the fact of a place in Pembroke being 

 called Cold Blow, added to the many places with 

 the prefix Cold, tend to confirm the supposition 

 that the numerous cold harbours were places of 

 protection against the winter winds ? A. L-. 



With regard to Cold Harbour (supposed" Co- 

 luber," which is by no means satisfactory), it may 

 be worth observing that Cold is a common prefix : 

 thus there is Cold Ashton, Cold Coats, Cold or 

 Little Highara, Cold Norton, Cold Overton, Cold 

 Walthamf Cold St. Aldwins, —coats -meere, 

 _,vell, —stream, and several cole, &c. Cold peak is 

 a hill near Kendall. The latter suggests to me a 

 Query to genealogists. Was the old baronial name 

 of Peche, Pecche, of Norman origin as in the Battle 

 Koll "^ From the fact of the Peak of Derby having 

 been Pech-e ante 1200, I think this surname must 

 have been local, though it soon became sott, as 

 appears from the rebus of the LuUingstone family, 

 a peach with the letter i on it. I do not think that 

 k is formed to similar words in Domesday record. 

 Caldecote, a name of several places, may re- 

 quire explanation. Aug. Camb. 



I be-T to give you the localities of two " Cold 

 Harbours:" one on the road from Uxbridge 

 to Amersham, 194 miles from London (see Ord- 

 nance Map 7.) ; the other on the road from Chelms- 

 ford to Epping, 13L miles from the former place 

 (see Ordnance Map No. 1. N. W.). Diss. 



There are several Cold Harbours in Sussex, in 

 Dallington, Chiddinglv, Wivelsfield, one or two in 

 WorthT one S.W. of Bignor, one N.E. of Hurst 

 Green, and there may be more. ^ -r,,, , 



In Surrey there is one in the parish ot Bletcli- 

 ingley. William Figg. 



There is a farm called Cold Harbour, near St. 

 Albans, Herts. S. A 



After the numerous and almost tedious theories 

 concerning Cold Harbours, particularly the " for- 

 lorn hope " of the Coal Depots in London and 

 elsewhere, permit me to suggest one of almost 

 universal application, llcspecting here-burh, an 

 inland station lor an army, in the same sense as a 

 "harbour" for ships on the sea-coast, a word still 

 sufficiently familiar and intelligible, the question 

 seems to be settled ; an.l the French " auherge" 

 for an inn has been used as an illustration, thougli 

 the first syllable may be doubtful. The principal 

 difficulty appears to consist in the prefix " Cold ;'^ 

 for why, it may be asked, should a bleak and " cold ' 

 situation be selected as a " harbour ? " The fact pro- 

 bably is that this spelling, liowever common, is a cor- 

 ruption i\>r " Col." Colerna, in Wiltshire, fortu- 



nately retains the original orthography, and in 

 Ancvlo-Saxon literally signifies the habitation or 

 settlement of a colony; though in some topogra- 

 phical works we are told that it was formerly 

 written " Cold Home," and that it derives its name 

 from its bleak situation. This, however, is a mere 

 coincidence ; for some of these harbours are in 

 warm sheltered situations. Sir R. C. Hoare was 

 ri-rhtwhenhe observed, that these "harbours 

 were generally near some Roman road or Roman 

 settlement. It is therefore wonderful that it 

 should not at once occur to every one conversant 

 with the Roman occupation of this island, that all 

 these "CoL-harbours" mark the settlements, farms, 

 outposts, or garrisons of the Roman colonies 

 planted here. ''■ 



Oxford, 



Harbour. — Your correspondent asks 

 whether there is a " Cohl Harbour " in every 



Cold 



county, &c. I think it probable, though it may 

 take some time to catalogue them all. There are 

 so many in some counties, that ten on an average 

 for each would in all likelihood fall infinitely 

 short of the number. The Roman colonists miist 

 have formed settlements in all directions during 

 their lono- occupation of so favourite a spot as 

 Britain. °" Cold Harbour Farm " is a very fre- 

 quent denomination of insulated spots cultivated 

 from time immemorial. These are not always 

 found in cold situations. Nothing is more com- 

 mon than to add a final d, unnecessarily, to a word 

 or syllable, particularly in compound words. In- 

 stances will occur to every reader, which it would 

 be tedious to enumerate. J • ■'^• 



After reading the foregoing communications on the 

 subject of the much-disputed etymology of Cold 

 Harbour, our readers will probably agree with us in 

 thinking the following note, from a very distinguished 

 Saxon scholar, offers a most satisfactory solution ot the 

 question : — 



With reference to the note of G. B. H. (Vol. i., 

 p 60.) as well as to the very elaborate letter in 

 the "Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries 

 (the paper in the Archoeologia I have not seen), i 

 would humbly suggest the possibility, that the 

 word Cold or Cole may originally have been the 

 ' Anglo-Saxon Col, and the entire expression have 

 desfiniated a cool summer residence by a rivers 

 side°or on an eminence ; such localities, in short, 

 as are described in the " Proceedings" as bearing 

 the name of Cold Harbour. . 



" Tlie denomination appears to me evidently 

 the modern English for the A.-S. Col Hereberg. 

 Colburn, Colebrook, Coldstream, are, no doubt, 

 analagous denominations. *• 



