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Crich-— (D.D.B. Crice.) — (In Camden's Britannia, Creacli.) — C. crug (Welsh 

 craig) — a heap, rock, crag ; — the crag. 



Cromfbrd.— (D.D.B. Crunforde.)— The initial syllable is from the A.S. 

 crumb, crump — crooked, crumped, or from the C. crom — bent, bowed, 

 and the postfix is the A.S. ford — a ford ; — the bent or crooked ford. 



Crowden. — The prefix is A.S. craw, crawe — a crow. The final syllable is 

 a Celto-Saxon root, or a Celtic word adopted by the Saxons, meaning a 

 vale, hollow, or deep wooded valley — the A.S. form being denu. The 

 crow's vale or hollow. 



Croxall. — (D.D.B. Crocheshalle.)— L. crux — a cross, and A.S. alh, ealh, 

 heal, heall — a hall, palace, temple, place of entertainment, inn, house ; — 

 the hall or temple of the cross, — probably a building in which was 

 deposited a fragment of the true cross. 



Cubley. — (D.D.B. Cobelei.) — A.S. cop, copp, cuppa — a cup or hollow, 

 and A.S. leg, leag, lea, leah, lag, lah — a meadow, a field, land ; — the 

 field in the hollow. 



Dalbury.— (D.D.B. Dellingeberie, Delbebi.)— N. dalr, A.S. dal— a valley 

 or dale, and A. S. burh, burg, burge, burhg, birig, byrig — a town, city, fort, 

 castle, a fortified hill or place ; — the fort in the dale. 



Dale Abbey. — N. dalr, A.S. dal ;— the abbey of the dale. 



Darley (Dale)- — (D.D.B. Dereleie, Derelei.)— C. dur, dwr — water, and C. 

 lie — a place, or perhaps the final syllable is A.S. leg, lea, leag, leah, lag, 

 lah — a meadow, a field, land ; — the place or the field by the water. 



Darley (Abbey). — Anciently Derley. For derivation, see above. 



Denby. — (D.D.B. Denebi.) — The prefix is a Celto-Saxon root, or a Celtic 

 word adopted by the Saxons, meaning a vale, hollow, or deep wooded 

 valley (the A.S. form being denu), the final syllable is the N. byr, by — a 

 village, a habitation, an abode ; — the village or abode in the deep wooded 

 valley. 



Derby. — (D.D.B. Derbii.) — The present form of the word is a corruption of 

 Deoraby. The prefix is derived from the A.S. deor — an animal, a wild 

 beast, a deer. The postfix is from the N. byr, by — an abode, a habitation, 

 and ultimately a village. The abode of wild animals or deer. In Saxon 

 times, Derby was known as North weortliig or Norworth, from A.S. north 

 — the north — and A.S. weorthig, worthig, wurthig, worth — land, a portion 

 of land, a close, a field (generally well watered), a croft, a homestead, a 

 garden, an estate, a court, a hall, a palace, a street, a public way ; — the 

 north land or estate, or the north street or public way. Derby is situated 

 on the direct line of the Ryknield-street, an old Roman road traversing 

 the island from St. David's in Wales, in a north-westerly direction 

 through Gloucester, Tewkesbury, Birmingham, Burton, Egginton, Little 

 Chester, Alfreton, Stretton, Chesterfield, and to the north of England, ter- 

 minating near the mouth of the river Tyne, in Northumberland. During 



