Croxton Kerrial milemarker
© Alan Murray-Rust, via Geograph, CC BY-SA 2.0

Croxton Kerrial milemarker Croxton Kerrial sign

Croxton Kerrial

Croxton Kerrial, Leicestershire

The first element of Croxton Kerrial, in the Framland Hundred of Leicestershire, likely comes from the Old Danish male personal name Krōk (Old Norse Krókr), originally a byname meaning ‘crooked-back’, possibly ‘crooked-dealer’ related to Old Norse krókr ‘hook’. Alternatively the first element could be Old English crōc ‘a crook’, which relates to a location situated in a nook or bend of land. The second element is Old English tun ‘an enclosure; a farmstead; a village; an estate’. The land was granted to granted to Bertramus de Cryoll in 1239 thus the affix Kerrial. 

This name can be compared to South Croxton also in Leicestershire.

Ascribed Culture

Collection

Viking Names

Keywords

byname, Danish, hybrid name, Leicestershire, male_name, place-name

Further information

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Acknowledgements

Image © Alan Murray-Rust, via Geograph, CC BY-SA 2.0

Image © Bob Harvey, via Geograph, CC BY-SA 2.0

References

Barrie Cox, A Dictionary of Leicestershire and Rutland Place-Names. Nottingham: English Place-Name Society (2005), p. 29.

Barrie Cox, The Place-Names of Leicestershire II. English Place-Name Society LXXVIII (2002), pp. 102-103.

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