Criddlestyle
Criddlestyle, Fordingbridgecounty:
coords:
Hampshire
SU1614
otherwise: Cridelistruhe, 1220; Cridelestrowe, 1341
CRIDDLESTYLE, hamlet in Fordingbridge
The last element in the name is highly variable (1248 '-ton'' 1377 '-stowe' modern '-style') but it seems originally to have been hypothetical Old English 'Crideles treow'='Cridel's tree'. The form of about 1220 also allows the possibility of 'trog, thruh'='trough', 'water conduit', and the more so since Criddlestyle is at a place where the river Avon runs in more than one channel and there are leats, to judge by the OS 1 to 50000 map. 'Cridel' though unattested, would be a regularly constructed pet form of the name 'Creoda/Crida'; this name was borne by a son of Cerdic, one of the first kings of the West Saxons.
