Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Calders 1086 DBf.266b 1096–1101 Chest 1280

• Kalders c.1350 Brownbill

• Magna Caldeye 1281 Court

• Magna Calday 1385 ChFor 1518

• Great Caldey 1552 Sheaf 17 Orm2 1621 Sheaf 1656 ChetOSviii 17 Sheaf 1629 1639

• Calday Magna 1629 ChetOSviii

• Magna Caldey 1641 Orm2

• Magna Cawedy 1606 Brownbill

• Caldaygrange 1341 Sheaf

• Caldeygrange 1347 ChFor

• Caldegraunge 1547 MinAcct

• Caldygrange 1553 Sheaf

• Cald(e)y Grange 17 1629 ChetOSviii 1639 Sheaf

• Caldey Grange, Cauldye Grange 1632 ib

• Caldey Grange 1641 Orm2

• Caldie Grange 1766 Sheaf

• Caldy Grange 1882 Orm2

• Graunge 1519 ChRR

• The Graunge 1621 Orm2 1656

• Grange 1656 Sheaf

• The Grange 1670 1724 NotCestr

• graunge vocat' le Hall in Westkirkeby, Grangia de Hall 1547 MinAcct

• grangia vocat' le Hall, the grange of Hall alias Hall Grange 1553 Pat

• Grange Hall 1724 NotCestr

• grangia de Wyrrall 1547 MinAcct

• Wirrall in parochia de Westekyrkbie 1554 ib

• Great Caldey alias Cald(e)y Grange, Magna Caldey alias Cald(e)y Grange 17 Sheaf 1629 ChetOSviii 1639 Sheaf 1641 Orm2

• Kirby Grange 1724 NotCestr

• Grange otherwise Caldie Grange 1766 Sheaf

• Great Caldy, commonly called Grange 1819 Orm2

• Great Caldy, commonly called Grange or Caldy Grange 1882 ib

Etymology

'The greater part of Caldy', v. magna , grēat , cf. Caldy, Great Caldy & Little Caldy, 282supra . This manor was a grange of Basingwerk Abbey Fl, v. grange , and took its later name from the old hall, demolished by 1819 (Orm2 ii491), replaced by the later Grange Hall, cf. the New Hall , the Old Hall 1774 Sheaf, Old Hall 1831 Bry, v. hall . The grange was also named after Wirral 167supra , 1 7, and West Kirby 294infra , the hundred and parish in which its estates lay.