Place Name Elements

Bache – valley
Badger’s Croft – Richard de Bocharde’s croft (possibly French)
Bakewell means Badeca’s spring
Beresford – Beaver’s Ford. All people of that name come originally from that one place
Biggin – building
Birchin Booth – cattle farm by the birch trees.
Bole – indicates lead smelting took place there
Boosley or Bothesley – cattle farm in a clearing.
Booth – pasture
Brende, Brund – burnt
Broncott – cottage amongst the brooms
Bury – fortification or manor house
Church – as in Lud, comes from Anglo Saxon or Celtic cirice for mound or hill
Cloud – hill with rocky top
Darley clearing of wood in an area where deer are common
Derby was known as Northworthy – northern enclosure and was a regional centre for trade
Scandinavians renamed it Deorby – estate or farm near a deer park
Dore - pass

Droit – dirty
Dun – hill or upland area eg Sheldon, Hartington or dun, Chelmorton, Wetton, Butterton, Great Longstone
Edensor – ofer or convex shoulder

Flagg – at the turfs
Feld – land without trees eg Alstan’s feld or Alstonefield and Fairfield
Gold – marsh marigolds
Grad – great or large
Grove – from graefe or small, managed wood
Grindlow Green hill
Haddon – heathy hill
Hlaw - Anglo Saxon for low hill with burial ground on top eg Baslow and Foolow
Hay – enclosed area
Heathcote – cottage on heathy ground
Hop – remote place – Hassop, Alsop, Hope and Hopton
Hous on end is indication of a sheep farm – kept under cover in winter
Hulme or Holmr – raised land in marshland – Scandinavian
Some Norsemen came to the Wirral via Ireland as in Kirk Ireton which indicates a Norseman who’s been to Ireland
Hucklow – personal name
Hurdlow – Treasure mound
Knarr – rugged rock from Middle English
Knotburt Knot – Middle English for hillock

Leek – spring or brook loekr – old Norse Lece – Old English
Ley – Anglo Saxon clearing or woodland – concentrated in Derwent valley. Darley, Wensley, Beeley, Cowley, Rowsley
Longnor – Long ridge, ofer or convex shoulder
Ludwell – loud spring
Mer – boundary as in Merril Grove ie: grove on a boundary hill
Nab – edge of hill
Nay – as Knarr ie: Naychurch
Oakenclough – deep valley with oak trees
Park – can mean enclosed place
Pearls – water
Pecsaetnaland – land of the Peak Dwellers
Quarnford – Quernford,  ford over which millstones were carried
Rainow – a ridge with a concave shoulder
Reeve Edge – rough edge
Repton – mausoleum for Mercian royalty
Roche – French for rock
Rowland – boundary
School Clough - refers to a herdsman's hut or shed, nothing to do with a school

Shaw – small wood
Sheen – sceon – plural herdsmen’s huts

Sich – marshy area

Sniddles – Cheshire dialect word for long, coarse grass that grows in wet places
Stafford means ford by a landing
Thick Withins – abundance of willows

Thorpe – outlying secondary settlement of main settlement
Tideswell – Tidi's spring
Ton is Anglo Saxon name for farm or open areas, mostly on limestone

Strines – Middle English for narrow watercourse
Swainsmoor – personal name possibly from Sveinn
Swythamley – Svitha old Norse for land cleared by burning
Waell was Anglo Saxon for spring
Wardlow lookout hill
Wick - farm with specialised production as in Parwich

Wiggin – Mountain Ash tree
Yate - gate

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