Cawthorne

Meaning

Proper Noun

• village/and/civil parish in the Barnsley (metropolitan borough) South Yorkshire (county) England (constituent country) .
• small settlement (and site of {{w Cawthorne Camp) in|dist/Ryedale|co/North Yorkshire|cc/England}} .

Origin

• Cawthorne is a toponymic surname related to the village of Cawthorne in South Yorkshire, England, or alternatively the village of Cawthorn in North Yorkshire, England. It also means a region of Yorkshire where there are many thorned plants and the climate is cold.
• The linguistic origin of the surname is the Old English (Anglo-Saxon) cald-thorne meaning "cold (or exposed) thorn-tree".