Heathcote is a surname rooted in English topography which literally means "Heath Cottage".
The location in Warwickshire appears is written "Hethcot" in the 1196 Feet of Fines for the county.
[3] The Anglo-Saxon surname "Heathcote" originates from a hamlet that stands high on the barren hills above Dovedale and Hartington.
The place-name refers to a cottage on a heath or wasteland where was found an outlying farm or grange of Grendon Abbey.
Some of the earliest references to the grange at Heathcote are found in records of the 1300s and 15th century.