Place	Original Name	Language	Meaning	Notes
Alvanley	Elveldelie (DB 1086)	Anglo-Saxon	Aelfwald's wood or clearing
Ashton	Estone (DB 1086)	Anglo-Saxon	Ash tree enclosure or farmstead
Backford		Old Norse / Anglo-Saxon	Brook ford	The OS map shows a brook with a path across it.
Barrow		Anglo-Saxon	Hill	Little Barrow and Great Barrow sit on a well-defined ridge.
Bridge Trafford		Anglo-Saxon	Bridge valley ford	Bridge over the River Gowy.
Clifton	Clistune (DB 1086)	Anglo-Saxon	Cliff enclosure or farmstead	Location beneath the elevated sandstone of Runcorn.
Daresbury		Anglo-Saxon	Deor's fortification
Dunham on the Hill	Doneha (DB 1086)	Anglo-Saxon	Hill homestead or village	Built on a little sandstone outcrop above low-lying ground.
Ellesmere Port	Modern		Proper name + mere	Port on the canal from Ellesmere in Shropshire.
Elton	Eltone (DB 1086)	Anglo-Saxon	Eel enclosure or farmstead	Eels were once fished in the Mersey.
Frodsham	Frotesham (DB 1086)	Anglo-Saxon	Frod's homestead or village (or hemmed-in land)
Gowy		Welsh	Water
Guilden Sutton		Anglo-Saxon	Golden (productive) south farm
Halton	Heletune (DB 1086)	Anglo-Saxon	Heathery enclosure or farmstead	This high sandstone area could well have been heathery.
Hapsford		Anglo-Saxon	Haep's ford
Helsby	Helesbe (DB 1086)	Old Norse	Village by the ledge	A precise description of the flat top of Helsby Hill towering over the village.
Ince	Inise (DB 1086)	Welsh	Island (cf. Welsh Ynys)	One of several little hamlets south of the Mersey situated on small sandstone outcrops above what were once marshes liable to flooding.
Keckwick		Anglo-Saxon	Keikr's (Norse name) specialised farm
Kellsall		Anglo-Saxon	Kell's nook of land
Ledsham	Levetesham (DB 1086)	Anglo-Saxon	Leofede's homestead or village
Manley	Menlie (DB 1086)	Anglo-Saxon	Common wood or clearing
Mickle Trafford		Old Norse / Anglo-Saxon	Great valley ford	Perhaps referring to a crossing of the River Gowy at Plemstall
Mollington	Molintune (DB 1086)	Anglo-Saxon	Molling's enclosure or farmstead
Moore		Anglo-Saxon	Moor	A once marshy area by the River Mersey.
Mouldsworth		Anglo-Saxon	Hill enclosure	On the Cheshire sandstone ridge
Norton	Nortune (DB 1086)	Anglo-Saxon	North enclosure or farmstead	Close to the south bank of the River Mersey.
Overpool	Pol (DB 1086)	Anglo-Saxon	Upper pool
Overton		Anglo-Saxon	Ridge enclosure or farmstead	Tucked under the northern end of the Cheshire Sandstone Ridge.
Picton	Pichetone (DB 1086)	Anglo-Saxon	Pica's enclosure or farmstead
Plemstall	Plegmondestowe	Anglo-Saxon	Fenny island of Plegmund	Associated with St. Plegmund, the 9th century scholar and tutor to King Alfred, e.g. the well of that name.
Runcorn		Anglo-Saxon	Wide bay or cove	Reference to the widening of the River Mersey upstream from here.
Saughall		Anglo-Saxon	Willow-tree nook of land
Stanlow	Stanlaw (1066)	Anglo-Saxon	Stone mound	Apt description of the meagre and bleak outcrop at Stanlow Point, location of the ancient abbey (ruins).
Stanney (Great/Little)	Stanei (DB 1086)	Anglo-Saxon	Stoney island
Stoak		Anglo-Saxon	Stockaded place	Perhaps piles were used as a defence against the surrounding marshes.
Tarvin	Terfyn	Welsh	Boundary	Near the River Gowy, originally the River Tarvin, the old Welsh border.
Thornton-le-Moors	Torentune (DB 1086)	Anglo-Saxon	Thorn-tree enclosure or farmstead by the moor	Another hamlet on a rocky outcrop over once marshy land.
Wervin	Wivevrine (DB 1086)	Anglo-Saxon	Cattle fen (uncertain)	Low lying, originally marshy, land.
Weston	Westone (DB 1086)	Anglo-Saxon	West enclosure or farmstead	At the western end of Runcorn.
Willington		Anglo-Saxon	Wynflaeth's enclosure or farmstead
Wimbolds Trafford		Anglo-Saxon	Winebald's valley ford	Perhaps near a ford over the River Gowy.