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.

Craddock

Early-attested site in the Parish of Uffculme

Historical Forms

  • (on) craducc 938 BCS724
  • Cradok 1249 FF
  • Craddocke 1589 SR

Etymology

This must originally have been the name of the small stream which flows into the Culm here. The valley is called Cradocumbe (1185), Cratecombe (12th) in the Buckland Cartulary. Ekwall (RN 101) considers that the name may have been elliptical for Nant Caradoc or the like (nant , 'valley, brook').