There's a Cridland Street in New Zealand. Thanks to Larsen's Art and Sign Studio, based on the street, we have pictures and details - including a detailed account of the Cridland that is responsible for the name of the street.
In Spaxton, Somerset lives Cridland's Farm. The image to the right is an Ordnance Survey map from around 1900 showing the farm very clearly: modern-day maps still show a building there, but no mention of the name. Thanks to David Cridland of Australia for spotting this, too.
Places called Cridland
Image produced from the Ordnance Survey Get-a-map service. Image reproduced with kind permission of Ordnance Survey.
There are two places called Cridland in Somerset, England. Janet Cridland from Bristol, England says...
If you are driving along the B3191 coast road from Watchet to Blue Anchor you will pass a lane on your left signposted to the village of Old Cleeve. At the entrance to the lane is Jenny Cridland's Copse. A little further along the B3191 on the right is Cridland's Copse, which can be seen above the rock fall from the beach below the Blue Anchor pub.
Incidentally, I don't know who Jenny was but if anyone can enlighten me I'd love to know.
Cridland Hill
Cridland Hill, in North Queensland, Australia. David Cridland from Australia says...
Cridland Hill is up in the most remote section of Cape York, Queensland. It is visible from the sea if you can avoid all the reefs. So far, the earliest record I have of it is in Robert Logan Jack's famous book published in 1922 called "Northmost Australia" (vol. 2 p693) . It is marked on modern detailed maps of the area too.
How this small sandy hill got the name is a mystery. I am working on a theory that the famous Lieutenant William Bligh RN named it while drifting by on the 2nd June 1789 on route from Tahiti to Koepang. This was when he named the hill near to Cridland Hill, called Puddingpan Hill. This theory also involves a letter from the mother (Mary Anne Clements, remarried?) of Charles Cridland the unlawful cridland you mention, that begs leniency for her son on the basis, that he is the son of a Officer in the Royal Navy (deceased by this time I think:1825). If there was a Cridland in the Royal Navy until approx.1800 when Charles was born (he was 17 when sentenced to life transportation in 1820), then Bligh may have known Cridland and named the hill for him.
Another, less interesting, possibility is that it was named by an Admiralty Hydrographer in approx. 1898-99 while on Queensland Costal Surveys aboard the HMS Paluma. A Lieutenant H.T.A. Bosanquet served on this ship and the hill nearest Cridland Hill is called Bosanquet Hill. There were a lot more Cridland's in Australia by then.
