Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• (terre appelle) Sprauston 1349 MinAcct 1400

• Sprauston vel Cardenhurst 1398 ib

• Sprouston 1350 MinAcct

• (claus' de) Sprowston, Sprowston vel Cardenhurst 1507 ib

• Sperston vel Cardynhurst(e) 1422,1423 MinAcct

• Sperston vel Cardynghurst(e) 1443,1507 ib

• Sperston vel Cardinghurst(e) 1514 ib

• terra et pratum vocat' Sperston vel Gardynghurst 1487 ib

• (pastura de) Coldynghurst 1487 MinAcct

• (clausa de) Sproston, Sproston vel Cardenhurst 1514 MinAcct

• Farthest Cardenhurst & Midle Cardenhurst, the Litle Carden 1651 LRMB278

Etymology

'Sprow's farm', from the OE  pers.n. Sprow (Redin 35), v. tūn .The later name contains hyrst 'a wood, a hill', but the origin of the first el. is uncertain. Analogy with Carden 325infra is topographically unlikely. It may be the gen.sg. of a wk.masc. OE  pers.n. *Carda as in Cardington Sa (DEPN s.n. Cardeston). It is probably 'marsh valley', v. kjarr , denu . The 'marsh valley' may be the depression occupied by Park Moss infra (101-660817). Garnersgate Lane (101- 653817 to 653813) may contain Cardenhurst and gata , 'lane to Cardenhurst pasture-allotment'.