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.
Survey of English place-names
Home
Search
Browse
About
Home
/
Browse
/
North Riding of Yorkshire
/
Pickering Lythe Wapentake
/
Brompton
/
Trouts Dale
/
William's Cross
William's Cross
Early-attested site in the Parish of Brompton
Historical Forms
crucem Willelmi
1335
ForP
Etymology
v.
cros
and William Howes 81
supra
.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Row Howes
Sawdon
Darncombe
Foulbridge
Wydale
Backleys
Major Settlement
Brompton
Snainton
Trouts Dale