English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

mancroft

Field in the Parish of Marsh Chapel

Historical Forms

  • mancroft 1839 TA

Etymology

mancroft 1650*(v. croft; the first el. may be(ge)mǣne denoting a croft communally held, butno certainty is possible; cf. leʒ Meneholme infra)