Croxall

Croxall, Staffordshire

Croxall, historically in the Repton and Gresley Hundred of Derbyshire, probably comes from the Old English male personal name Croc derived from the Old Norse personal name Krókr and the Old English halh ‘nook, corner of land’. However, it is also possible that the first element is from the Old English topographical element croc ‘crook’, perhaps ‘nook’. 

The parish was transferred to Staffordshire in 1894.

Old Norse Name

Krókr

Anglicised Name

Krok

Ascribed Culture

Keywords

hybrid name, place-name

Further information

References

Kenneth Cameron, The Place-Names of Derbyshire III. English Place-Name Society Volume XXIX (1959), pp. 631-2.

Gillian Fellows Jensen, Scandinavian Settlement Names in the East Midlands. Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag (1978), p. 375.