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.

Efferiddy

Early-attested site in the Parish of Toddington

Historical Forms

  • Aelfredeswelredy 13th Dunst

Etymology

This local survival is noted in BHRS v. 139. It is interesting as an example of the OE  riðig, which is fairly common in the minor names of early Beds documents but which seems to have left no trace on the map. The whole name means 'stream from Alfred's spring.'

Places in the same Parish