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.

Crowches

Field in the Parish of Eye and Dunsden

Historical Forms

  • Crowches early17th UNKNOWN_SOURCE

Etymology

Crowches(cf. Crechfeild, Cruchfeild, Crecheclose 1603–4; British *crouco-,'hill,' could have given these forms)

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement