The story
- Old English · derived fromalor“alder”
- English todayAlderwick
Seemingly from Old English alor (“alder”) + wīċ (“hamlet, farm”). However, probably actually a misconstrued version of Aldrick, itself a variant of Aldridge.
Words from the same roots
Old Englishalor all →
alderAldershotAldridgeAldertonEllertonAldrethAllbrookArtingstall
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.