St Audrey's Lane
Early-attested site in the Parish of St Ives
Historical Forms
- Tawdr(e)y Lane 1766 J 1830 Darton
Etymology
It is much to be regretted that the popular reduction of the name of the famous East Anglian saint Æthelthryth to Tawdry has disappeared in the modern genteel rendering of the name.For this reduction in the common word tawdry , v. NEDs. v .