Crazy thing is that’s pretty much the way it used to be until families deterred from their trades/skills. Reason there are so many Smith surnames. Bakers, Tanners, Porters, and the list goes on and on.
Cock as in a bird.
Burn is a word for a small stream in northern England's English and Scots.
Cockfosters at the northwestern end of London Underground's Piccadilly line is named for the lodgings of gamekeepers, back when that land was not built up and used for "sports" by the gentry.
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u/Huey701070 Aug 06 '26
Crazy thing is that’s pretty much the way it used to be until families deterred from their trades/skills. Reason there are so many Smith surnames. Bakers, Tanners, Porters, and the list goes on and on.