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.

Crewton

Other OS name in the Parish of Alvaston and Boulton

Etymology

, named in 1895 from Sir Vauncey Crewe , a large landowner in the district . For some time previously it had apparently been known as Newton , v. DbNQ 1896, 8–10 .