English Place-name Society

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.

Ruggadon

Early-attested site in the Parish of Chudleigh

Historical Forms

  • Ruggeton 1249 Ass

Etymology

name Hrucga found in hrucgan cumbes ford (Crawf 1). The fact that there was a pers. name (de) Roggecomƀ in the 1333SR for Chudleigh suggests that there may also have been a hrucgan cumb in that parish named after the same man as Ruggadon.