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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.

Crake Low

Other OS name in the Parish of Tissington

Etymology

, cf. Great Crakelowe 1654Portland , probably from the ordinary work crake ' crow, raven ' and hlāw . Crake is often held to be Scandinavian but there may well have been a native equivalent ( cf. kráka ) .