Crakeplace Hall
Early-attested site in the Parish of Dean
Historical Forms
- Crakeplace 1288 Orig 1392,1399 Ass
- Crakplace c.1382 StB
- Crakeplase 1383 Ass
- Crackplace Hall 1617 CW(OS)iv
- Crakeplace Hall 1727 CW(OS)iv
Etymology
This would seem to be a British place-name from OWelsh creic , 'rock.' Cf. Crake (PN La 191). Place is used here in the sense 'manor-house,' as in Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight v. 398, and the common Welsh Plas Newydd .
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
- Dean Moor
- Deanscale
- Branthwaite Bridge
- Branthwaite Edge
- Calva Hill
- Pardshaw Crag
- Ullock Mains
- Browtop
- Butts Wood
- Cockshot Wood
- Crofthouse
- Crookelty Spout
- Cup and Ring
- Fifkettle Brow
- Foulknott Hill
- Frith Wood
- Gatebarrow
- Greencastle Brow
- Branthwaite
- Highfield Ho
- Lusty Close
- Outfield Plantation
- Park Hill
- Raise
- Rye Cottage
- Shawbank Brow
- Smithybanks Wood
- Near and Far Stockbeck
- Toot Well
- Whitekeld
- Woodhall Brow
- Woodside
- Wright Green
- Acrewalls
- Kirby Brow
- Branthwaite Hall
- Broomy Hill
- Longcross Intack