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.

Cross St.

Other OS name in the Parish of Ashton on Mersey & Bowdon

Historical Forms

  • þe Crosse Streete 1586 Earw

Etymology

, 1724 NotCestr , þe Crosse Streete 1586 Earw , ' street at a cross ' , v. cros , strǣt , cf. prec. , and ' Watling Street' 140 , which crosses Mersey at Crossford , from which Cross St . extends southward to Washway Rd infra .