Editing Cookridge (section)

==Etymology==
The name of Cookridge is first attested in the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086, as ''Cucheric''. The second element of the name is agreed to come from an [[Old English]] word *''ric'' ('narrow strip of land'), attested only in place-names. The origin of the first element is less certain: it could perhaps be from an otherwise unattested [[personal name]], inferred to have been *''Cuca'', or from a variant of the attested word ''cwica'' ('quickset hedge, hedge grown from (hawthorn) cuttings'). Thus the name might once have meant 'Cuca's narrow strip of land' and 'narrow strip of land demarcated by a quickset hedge').<ref>Harry Parkin, ''Your City's Place-Names: Leeds'', English Place-Name Society City-Names Series, 3 (Nottingham: English Place-Name Society, 2017), p. 38.</ref>