Editing Seacroft (section)

==Etymology==
The name ''Seacroft'' is first attested in the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086, as ''Sacroft'' and ''Sacrofft''; the spellings ''Secroft'', ''Secrofte'' are attested around 1090 (surviving in a manuscript of 1403). The name comes from the [[Old English]] words {{lang|ang|sǣ}} ("large body of water") and {{lang|ang|croft}} ("enclosure"). Thus the name once meant "enclosure near a pool or marsh".<ref name=":0">A. H. Smith, ''The Place-Names of the West Riding of Yorkshire'', English Place-Name Society, 30–37, 8 vols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1961–63).</ref>{{rp|iv 121}}

In vicinity of Seacroft was once found the field-name ''Chetwde'', attested in 1341, which is unusual among English names for deriving partly from [[Common Brittonic]]: its first element is the word found today in modern Welsh as {{lang|cy|coed}} ("woodland"). The second element, added after Brittonic ceased to be understood in the region is the English word ''wood'', making the name tautological in meaning.<ref name=":0" />{{rp|iv 122}}