I was born there! I seem to recall that Dodgson
thought this area underwent Anglo-Saxon settlement
before much of the rest of N. Cheshire [to both the
east and west]. Was it something to do with -ingham >
-incham - as in Altinncham etc...?
--- Gillian Fellows-Jensen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I know all about Northenden. That is where I grew
> up. But you can read all
> about it in John Dodgson's 'The Place-Names of
> Cheshire' Part One pp.
> 234-39. Northenden was taken over by the City of
> Manchester in 1931 and that
> is probably why you cannot find it. It is also
> treated by Ekwall in DEPN but
> not in the recent Cambridge Dictionary of English
> Place-Names- Its original
> name was probably north-worthign 'enclosure in the
> north'.
> Gillian Fellows-Jensen
> ----- Original Message -----
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> Subject: [EPNL] Northenden (Manchester 22, England)
>
>
> Does anyone know its origin? An old form is Northen.
>
> The nearly area called Northern Moor was formerly
> spelled Northen Moor.
>
> Nearly was a parish called Northen Etchells. (I read
> that Etchelles is
> Anglo-Saxon "e_cels" = "land added to an estate".
>
>
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