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.

Cringles

Other OS name in the Parish of Kildwick

Historical Forms

  • Cringells 1656 PRAdd

Etymology

, 1640, 1713 PRKld , Cringells 1656 PRAdd , v. kringla ' acircle ' , applied to anything of circular shape , such as a round hill or a round pit or hollow ; the precise reference here is uncertain but it may be to certain mounds or old quarry holes in Cringles Plantation .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name