Crambe
Major Settlement in the Parish of Crambe
Historical Forms
- Crambom, Cranbon(e) 1086 DB
- Crambum 1086 DB c.1145–80 YCh 1391 Test
- Cranbu' 1168 P
- Crambom 1301 LS 1336 Ch
- Crambumb' 1303 Ebor
- Crambhom 1316 Vill
- Cramb(e) 1577 Saxton 1578 FF
Etymology
This name seems to contain ME crome , cromb , 'hook, crook' (found post 1400), from OE *cramb , cromb (v. NED s.v. crome ); cf. OE crumb , cromb , 'crooked, bent.' The ultimate origin of this seems to be a Germanic word cognate with Brit *krumbos , later evidenced as W crwm , crom , Ir crom , OGael cromb , 'bent, crooked.'
The original form of the name Crambe is OE (æt þǣm ) crambum , 'at the crooks,' and the crooks must refer, as in the case of Buttercrambe 36supra , to the serpentine bends of the river Derwent in the midst of which both places are situated.See also Croome, PN Wo 118, for a similar type of name.