Aldreth
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Ultimately from Old English alor (“alder”) + hȳþ (“harbour, hithe”).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Aldreth
- A hamlet near the River Great Ouse in Cambridgeshire, England.
- 1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 28, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 379:
- 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.
Translations[edit]
hamlet in Cambridgeshire