Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Salters Hough 1727 Sheaf33

• Salteres Halek

• Salters Croft 1839 TA 1817 EnclA

Etymology

Salters Hough (lost), Salters Hough 1727 Sheaf3 3 (461), Salteres Halek n.d. AD iv104, 'salters nook', v. saltere , halh , halc , must have been near Puddington. In this township is Salters Croft 1839TA , 1817EnclA (109–318731), and in the Burton EnclA , 1817, is Salters Gutter on the north side of the old channel of the River Dee 1817EnclA which is probably a rode in Dee caullid Salthouse (two miles downstream from Shotwick, one mile above Burton, opposite), a salt house cottage c.1536 Leland III91, cf. Salthowse 1535 VE 202 (belonging to the Collegiate Church of St John Baptist, Chester), v. salt-hūs, goter , croft , rād .The 'road' was an anchorage for ships in Dee.