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Aldfield

Major Settlement in the Parish of Ripon

Historical Forms

  • Aldefelt 1086 DB 1251 Font
  • Aldefeld(e) 1086 DB 1185 Templar 1198 Fount 13 Font 1267 Ripi 1512 Fount
  • Aldefeud c.1190 Fount
  • Haldefeld(e) 1155–62 YCh 1226 FF
  • Aldfeld c.1258 Ripiv 1285 KI 1457 FountBurs
  • Awdfeild 1587 PRRip 1622 FF
  • Audfeild(e) 1597 FF 1609 Ripiii

Etymology

'Old stretch of open country, old field', v. ald , feld . On the later Awd - spellings cf. Phonol. § 6.

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site