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.

Alditcroft

Field in the Parish of Whitbeck

Historical Forms

Alditcroft 1261–72 DuLa

Etymology

Alditcroft 1261–72 ib.('Aldgyþ's croft,' from OE Aldgȳþ, fem,personal name)

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site

Major Settlement

Whitbeck