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.

Gun Croft

Other OS name in the Parish of Melbourne

Historical Forms

  • Guncroft 1673 ib

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) , Guncroft 1673 ib , cf. Gunhall 1565 Lanc , presumably named from a family name Gun .