This list of Coldharbours, compiled by Hyde Clarke, appeared in Notes and Queries, Series 2, 6, 143–145 (21 August 1858).
It seems likely that Karslake, who himself submitted a query about Coldharbours, would have known of this list. Yet his map does not show all the Coldharbours listed here; e.g. of the nine Lincolnshire examples he includes only four.
cold harbour.
With a view of placing the evidence on this much-disputed subject in a more accessible form in “N. & Q.,” I beg to enclose a list of the Cold Harbours I have recorded up to the present time. This will be found to include the Rev. Mr. Hartshorne’s list of about eighty in the Salopia Antiqua, and all those referred to in “N. & Q.,” the Gentleman’s Magazine, and the Archæologia, and many others. In most cases the names have been obtained by me primarily from the Ordnance Survey, and other topographical sources; and the comparison with Mr. Hartshorne’s list was a subsequent measure. It is possible that in some few instances the same Cold Harbour may be found repeated by mistake.
The examination I have made of this subject in this more extensive survey brought me to the same conclusion as Sir Richard Hoare, Mr. Fosbroke, Admiral Smyth, the Rev. Mr. Hartshorne, Mr. Albert Way, and Mr. Benjamin Williams, that the Cold Harbours are in Roman situations. I have marked some in the following list with R.
With regard to the meaning of Harbour, I have no difficulty in adhering to the old school of Lye and Junius, but I am not able to arrive at a decided opinion as to the meaning of Cold. That it is neither Celtic nor Latin I have no doubt, nor that it is a Germanic word. I incline to the opinion that it means empty or abandoned; but it is difficult to apply a definite meaning to Cold as a prefix, which is applied to so many Roman sites besides harbours; and I am unable to satisfy myself as to the application of the prefix Chil and that of Windy, more particularly in Windy Harbour, which in some shires replaces the denomination Cold Harbour. The subject is beset with difficulties until a large mass of facts can be accumulated and classified on the terms Cold, Chil, Windy, and generally on topographical nomenclature.
The places are here classified by counties, as being more convenient for reference:—
| Bedfordshire | R. | Cold Harbour | Biggleswade |
| „ | R. | „ | Dunstable |
| „ | R. | „ | Harrold |
| Berkshire | R. | „ | Stadhampton |
| „ | R. | „ | Wallingford |
| „ | R. | „ | Wantage |
| Buckinghamshire | R. | „ | Aldbury |
| „ | R. | „ | Barton Hartshorn |
| „ | R. | „ | Fenny Stratford |
| „ | R. | „ | Gayhurst |
| „ | R. | „ | Great Marlow |
| „ | R. | „ | Great Missenden |
| Cambridgeshire | R. | „ | Arbury |
| Cornwall | „ | Gwinear | |
| „ | „ | Ladock | |
| „ | R. | „ | Towednack |
| Derbyshire | Cold Arbour | Dethwick | |
| „ | R. | Cold Harbour | Wormhill |
| Devonshire | R. | „ | Bampton |
| „ | R. | „ | Dolton |
| „ | R. | „ | Modbury |
| „ | R. | „ | Uffculme |
| Dorsetshire | „ | Poorstock | |
| „ | R. | „ | Stanton St. Gabriel |
| „ | R. | „ | Wareham |
| Essex | R. | „ | Maldon |
| „ | R. | „ | Purfleet |
| Flintshire | „ | Rhydian | |
| Gloucestershire | R. | „ | Dursley |
| „ | R. | „ | Kingscote |
| „ | R. | „ | Newent |
| „ | R. | „ | St. Briavel’s |
| „ | R. | „ | Stoke Gifford |
| „ | R. | „ | Stretford |
| „ | R. | „ | Wick |
| „ | R. | „ | Pill, Caerwent |
| „ | R. | „ | Reen, Berkeley |
| „ | R. | Cold Arbour | Oxenhall |
| Hampshire | R. | Cold Harbour | Andover |
| „ | R. | „ | Broughton |
| „ | „ | Emsworth | |
| „ | R. | „ | Fareham |
| „ | „ | Gosport | |
| „ | R. | „ | Havant |
| „ | R. | „ | Hungerford |
| „ | R. | „ | East Stratton |
| „ | R. | „ | Lower Wallop, Winchester |
| Herefordshire | R. | „ | Stretford |
| Hertfordshire | R. | „ | Berkhampstead |
| „ | R. | „ | Harborough Banks |
| „ | „ | St. Alban’s | |
| „ | R. | „ | Ware |
| „ | R. | „ | North of Do. |
| „ | R. | „ | Watford |
| Huntingdonshire | R. | „ | Alconbury |
| „ | R. | „ | Tempisford |
| Kent | R. | „ | Addington |
| „ | R. | „ | Aldington |
| „ | R. | „ | Aylesford |
| „ | „ | Bishopsbourne | |
| „ | „ | Bridge | |
| „ | R. | „ | Barham Downs |
| „ | „ | Chiselhurst | |
| „ | „ | Ditton | |
| „ | R. | „ | Eltham |
| „ | R. | „ | Lympne |
| „ | „ | Lamberhurst | |
| „ | R. | „ | Maidstone |
| „ | R. | „ | Newington |
| „ | „ | Northbourne | |
| „ | R. | „ | Northfleet |
| „ | „ | Penshurst | |
| „ | „ | Sellinge | |
| „ | „ | Stoke-in-Hoe | |
| „ | „ | Sittingbourne | |
| „ | „ | Sutton-al-HeneSutton-at-Hone | |
| „ | R. | „ | Trench |
| „ | „ | Tunbridge | |
| „ | R. | „ | Woodnesborough |
| „ | R. | „ | Woolwich |
| „ | R. | „ | Wrotham |
| „ | R. | „ | Wye |
| Lincolnshire | „ | Benington | |
| „ | „ | Boston | |
| „ | „ | Coates | |
| „ | „ | Frieston | |
| „ | R. | „ | Grantham |
| „ | „ | Grimoldby | |
| „ | „ | Kirkstead | |
| „ | R. | „ | Louth |
| „ | „ | Stenigote | |
| Middlesex | R. | „ | London |
| „ | „ | Blackwall | |
| „ | „ | Finchley | |
| „ | „ | Hayes | |
| „ | R. | „ | Kingsland |
| Monmouthshire | „ | Magor | |
| Norfolk | R. | „ | Fordham |
| Northamptonshire | R. | „ | Radstone |
| Nottinghamshire | „ | Mansfield | |
| „ | R. | „ | Newark |
| „ | „ | Shelton | |
| Oxfordshire | „ | Bicester | |
| „ | R. | „ | Brill |
| „ | „ | Biddenham | |
| „ | R. | „ | Chesterton |
| „ | R. | „ | Deddington |
| „ | „ | Oakley | |
| Radnorshire | R. | „ | Bailey Hill, Knighton |
| Somersetshire | R. | „ | Ditcheridge |
| „ | „ | Fonthill | |
| „ | R. | „ | Westbury |
| Surrey | „ | Bletchingley | |
| „ | „ | Camberwell | |
| „ | „ | Cranley | |
| „ | R. | „ | Croydon |
| „ | R. | „ | Dorking |
| „ | „ | Leith Hill | |
| Sussex | „ | Arundel | |
| „ | R. | „ | Bignor |
| „ | „ | Chiddingley | |
| „ | „ | Dallington | |
| „ | „ | Etchingham | |
| „ | „ | Frant | |
| „ | „ | Fittleworth | |
| „ | „ | Iden | |
| „ | „ | Wivelisfield | |
| „ | „ | Worth | |
| Westmorland | „ | Underbarrow | |
| Wiltshire | R. | „ | Broad Blunsden |
| „ | R. | „ | Brokenborough |
| „ | R. | „ | Cricklade |
| „ | R. | „ | Marlborough |
| „ | R. | „ | Tetbury |
| „ | R. | „ | Trowbridge |
| „ | R. | „ | Warminster |
| „ | R. | „ | Westbury |
| „ | R. | „ | West Lavington |
| Worcestershire | R. | „ | Droitwich |
| Yorkshire | R. | „ | Bishop’s Burton |
| „ | „ | Lessay | |
| „ | Cold Arbor | Cottingham |
Those who examine the list of names here given, and apply Sir Richard Hoare’s rule of identification, will find significant hints of Roman localities in Chester, Wich or Wick, Ford, Borough, Ridge, Street, Stone, Wool, Wye, Hunger, Ware, Hare, &c.
Hyde Clarke
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