Arkendale

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Arkendale N. Yorks. Arghendene 1086 (DB). Possibly ‘valley of a man called *Eorcna’. OE pers. name + denu (replaced from the 14th cent. by OScand. dalr). Alternatively the first element may be OE arce (genitive arcan) ‘ark, chest’, perhaps used in a transferred topographical sense.

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