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.

Cruwyshaye

Other OS name in the Parish of Rackenford

Historical Forms

  • Crofteshaye 1330 SR

Etymology

is Crofteshaye 1330SR (p) . v. croft , (ge)hæg . The modern form may have been influenced by the not far distant Cruwys Morchard supra 380 .