Definitions

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  • proper noun a village in Cumbria

Etymologies

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From Old English Alda (given name) and ham (home), probably translating to "home of Alda's people"

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Examples

  • Hayman went on to become Rector of St. Cuthbert, Aldingham.

    The Little Professor: 2006

  • Hayman went on to become Rector of St. Cuthbert, Aldingham.

    This Week's Acquisitions 2006

  • 'He went on to Dalton, Aldingham, Dendron and Ramside chapels and steeple-houses, and several places up and down, and the people followed him mightily; and abundance were convinced and saw that that which he spoke was the truth, but the priests were in a rage.

    A Book of Quaker Saints 1911

  • The whereabouts of Brevet Major John Perryn's grave has puzzled some residents in Aldingham for as long as they can remember.

    Evening Mail news round-up 2010

  • The Lord of Aldingham and Muchland, John de Harrington I, commenced the building of a tower and part of a (curtain) wall, linking with a second tower, on land which had already had a building of sorts on it since earlier in that century.

    Whitehaven News headlines 2010

  • A stone cross that says Major Perryn died on July 22, 1805, has always been visible in a hedge between St Cuthbert's Church, Aldingham, and the nearby Moat Farm.

    Evening Mail news round-up 2010

  • The whereabouts of Brevet Major John Perryn's grave has puzzled some residents in Aldingham for as long as they can remember.

    Evening Mail news round-up 2010

  • A stone cross that says Major Perryn died on July 22, 1805, has always been visible in a hedge between St Cuthbert's Church, Aldingham, and the nearby Moat Farm.

    Evening Mail news round-up 2010

  • The Lord of Aldingham and Muchland, John de Harrington I, commenced the building of a tower and part of a (curtain) wall, linking with a second tower, on land which had already had a building of sorts on it since earlier in that century.

    Whitehaven News headlines 2010

  • He has now returned to live in the parental home in Pine Street, Barrow, with girlfriend Ruth Hancock, who works in a care home on the coast road at Aldingham.

    Evening Mail news round-up 2010

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