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.

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 .

Places in the same Parish