Editing Gipton (section)

==Etymology==
The name of Gipton comes from [[Old English language|Old English]], and is first attested in the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086 in the forms ''Chipetun'', ''Cipetun'' and ''Chiperton''. The first element is a [[personal name]], ''Gippe'', and the second is the word ''tūn'' ('village, estate, farm'). Thus the name once meant 'Gippe's estate'.<ref name=":0">Harry Parkin, ''Your City's Place-Names: Leeds'', English Place-Name Society City-Names Series, 3 (Nottingham: English Place-Names Society, 2017).</ref>{{rp|48}}

The name ''Coldcotes'' appears in many street names in the area and derives from the ancient Anglo-Saxon settlement of the same name that was likely destroyed in the [[Harrying of the North]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Coldcotes {{!}} Domesday Book|url=https://opendomesday.org/place/SE3334/coldcotes/|access-date=2021-03-31|website=opendomesday.org}}</ref>