English: habitational name from places called Crookham in Berkshire
and Northumberland, or from Church Crookham in Hampshire. The one in
Northumberland is named with a dative plural form of Old Scandinavian
krókr ‘crook’, ‘bend’, while those in Berkshire and
Hampshire are probably named with an Old English word croc
‘crook’, ‘bend’ + ham ‘homestead’.
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