REPLY1850
COLD HARBOUR
By Φ.
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 of 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 *Archæologia* I have not seen), I would humbly suggest the possibility, that the word *Cold* or *Cole* may originally have been the Anglo-Saxon Cōl, and the entire…
Topics: Etymology, Anglo-Saxon Language, Historical Place Names
Locations: Cold Harbour, Colburn, Colebrook, Coldstream