Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Credendona 1086 DB

• Crehendon(a) c.1145 Miss c.1300 P 1186

• Crandon Hyii Ch 1313 Pat 1366

• Crendona 1155 NLC 1176 P 1195 Cur(P) 1200 Cur 1227 Ass 1237–40 Fees 1247 Ass 1301 Ipm 1302 FA 1346 1357 Ipm 1485 BodlBerks149

• Craendoñ 1163 P

• Creendon 1175 P 1177 P Ri P 1195 Cur(P) 1200 1202 PR 1230 Cl

• Croinden 1182 P c.1230 ADi

• Crandun, Crendun 1218 Pat

• Creindon c.1218 WellsL

• Crenden 1231,1328 Ch

• Croendene 13th ADi

• Crundon 1247,1262 Ass 1276 RH 1294,1296 Pat 1301 Ipm 1347 Pat 1388 IpmR

• Grendon 1278 Ipm 1342 Pat 1362 Fine

• Grandone 1284 FA

• Crondon 1316 Pat 1322 Misc 1335 Orig 1356 Cl 1357 Ipm 1358 Pat

• Croyndon 1362 Fine

• Cryndon 1373 Cl

• Cranden by Tame 1376 Cl

• Crayndon 1524 LP

• Long Crindon 1626 Vern

Etymology

OE  Creodan-dun , 'Creoda's hill,' v. dun . Intervocalic d was early lost, as in Tingewick supra , the intervocalic h which appears in some forms is the result of an attempt to get over the resultant vowel-hiatus, and the other forms result from the difficulties arising from the crasis of the two vowels. Long aptly describes the village and the epithet is supposed to have arisen from the need for distinguishing it from the not very distant Grendon Underwood. The forms of Crendon show that at one stage in its history confusion was quite likely.

The name Creoda is ancient. It was borne by a son of Cerdic the first king of the West Saxons, who is ignored by the annals which form the basis of the OE  Chronicle , but appears in the most trustworthy texts of the West Saxon royal genealogy as the father of King Cynric, and thus the ancestor of the later West Saxon kings. An almost contemporary Creoda (Crioda ) occurs in the Mercian royal genealogy as father of Pybba, the father of the famous King Penda of that race. Other examples of the name occur in local nomenclature, as, for example, in Credenhill (He).