There are examples of 'celde' in Kent. This appears to be OE.
-K
> Message Received: Feb 12 2008, 06:38 AM
> From: "Anthony Appleyard" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Subject: Re: [EPNL] Kelda
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> Jeremy Harte <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >Does anyone know when people in Yorkshire started calling springs kelda
> >and not wella,
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> [wiella] is Anglo-Saxon, [kelda] is Old Norse (= Viking language).
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