Aldreth

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/ˈɒldɹəθ/

proper noun

A hamlet near the River Great Ouse in Cambridgeshire, England.

OriginOld English alor →
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Meanings

proper noun
  1. A hamlet near the River Great Ouse in Cambridgeshire, England.

    I give now the supposed etymologies of one of the various spellings of “Alrehede”, now Aldreth. A better is Alrehythe, the Aldershore; a better still, perhaps, St. Etheldreda, or Audrey, herself.

    1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 28, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 379

Origin

  1. Old Englishalor“alder”
  2. EnglishAldreth

Ultimately from Old English alor (“alder”) + hȳþ (“harbour, hithe”).

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