Cricklade
Major Settlement in the Parish of Cricklade
Historical Forms
- Crecca gelad 905 ASC c.925
- Creocc gelad 905 ASC c.1050
- Creaccgelad 905 ASC c.1050
- Crecalad 1016 ASC c.1200
- Cricgelad 1016 ASC c.1050
- (into) Cracgelade c.975 ASWills 14th
- Crocgelad 1008 KCD1305 c.1225
- (æt) Cræcilade 1016 ASC c.1120
- Crecalade 1016 ASC c.1050
- Cricgelade 1016 ASC c.1120
- Crecgelade c.1050 BurghalHidage 16th
- Crichelade 1086 DB 1177 P
- Criccelade c.1150 FW
- Crikelade 1190 P 1290 Pat
- Crickelade 1205 ClR 1397 Pat
- Crikeford quod est Crikelade c.1400 LiberdeHyda
- Criechelada 1164–79 France
- Crekelade 1196 Cur 1290 Misc
- Creckelade 1205 ClR 1319 FF
- Kirkelade 1249 Ass
- Kyrkelade 1260,1370 Pat
- Creyeklade 1294 Pat
- Creyklade 1311 Pap
- Crekklade 1316 FA
- Creklade 1446 Pat 1675 Ogilby
- Cricklett 1637 Phillipps
Etymology
Forms from coins include Croci , Croc , Croccel , Crocglad t. Canute, Crecelā , Crec , Croc, Creccelad , Creeca , Crecel , Crecla t. Edw Conf, Cric , Criic , Cri t. Wm i
The second element is OE (ge )lād , 'passage,' probably with reference to a crossing of the Thames here. The same second element is found in Lechlade (Gl) about ten miles to the northeast (cf. PN Gl s. n .). The early spellings of Cricklade show that the first element cannot be the British cruc , 'hill.' It may be the British word corresponding to Welsh craig , 'rock' (OW creic ), cf. Crick (PN Nth 68–9). The reference would then be to the prominent isolated hill half a mile to the west of the town.