Calmsden

Calmsden
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Calmsden is located in Gloucestershire
Calmsden
Calmsden
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51°46′41″N 1°56′06″W / 51.7780°N 1.9349°W / 51.7780; -1.9349

Calmsden is a hamlet in the civil parish of North Cerney, in the Cotswold district, in the county of Gloucestershire, England. In 1870-72 the tything had a population of 65.

Etymology

The name of Calmsden is first attested in a thirteenth-century copy of a charter of 852, in the forms Kalemundesdene and Calmundesdene, and in a twelfth-century document in the form Calemundesdene. The name is thought to derive from an Old English personal name Calumund in its genitive form Calumundes, compounded with the noun denu ("valley"). If so, the name once meant "Calumund's valley".

References

  1. ↑ "Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Calmsden". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 7 September 2026.
  2. ↑ Watts, Victor, ed. (2004). The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521168557., s.v. Calmsden.