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.

Broken Cross

Other OS name in the Parish of Rudheath Lordship

Historical Forms

  • Old Broken Cross (p.h.), Broken Cross Farm 1831 Bry

Etymology

( 110–684732 ) , Old Broken Cross (p.h.), Broken Cross Farm 1831 Bry , cf. the Cross (e ) feild 1650LRMB , ( 18 ) Surv , from a wayside cross formerly standing at the intersection of King Street and Penny's Lane infra . It appears to have been broken in the seventeenth century , cf. Broken Cross 1118 . Crump 96 associates it with a salt - way from Northwich to Macclesfield , v. 146 , 49 .