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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.

Cardwell Delf

Other OS name in the Parish of Thornhill

Etymology

, named from the Cardwell family frequent here from the seventeenth century ( PRThl freq ) , v. (ge)delf ' pit, quarry ' .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site

Major Settlement