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.

Cringlethwaite Terrace

Early-attested site in the Parish of St John Beckermet

Historical Forms

Cringlewayth 1294 Cl

Cringelthwayt 1338 ib

Cringlethwaite 1578 Cocker

Etymology

v. kringla , þveit . It lies within a horseshoe bend of the Ehen.

Places in the same Parish