Calke
Major Settlement in the Parish of Calke
Historical Forms
- Calc, Kalc, Calk(e) 1132,e.Hy2 AddCh e.Hy2 Bemrose Hy2 Hast Hy2 Trentham 1198 Cur 1212 Fees
- Calch Hy2 StoweCh
- Chaleche 1194 P
- Chalke 1195 P 1196 ChancR 1197 P 1230 et passim
- Chalc 1198 Cur
- Cauke 1577 Saxton 1610 Speed
- Cawke 1577 DbAi
Etymology
'Chalk, limestone', v. calc . There are outliers of Carboniferous Limestone here some sixteen miles further south than the main outcrop of that formation in Db.