There is a pariah called Crundal, in Kent, and another called Crondall, in Hampshire; but from the occurrence of 'Ate Crundle' in the H.R. some of the families bearing the name probably derive it from the Anglo-Saxon crundel or crundn'yll, a designation frequently occurring in charters. "I find," says Dr. Leo, "no explanation of the word crund in any of the Gothic dialects, except in the Old High German. According to the regular transposition of the Anglo-Saxon consonants in words derived from that dialect, the primitive word should be chrunt or chrunti, and this word is found in the Gloss. Junii, where it is explained by the middle Latin word cerula, or, as it is also written, coerola, i.e. area, areula, pyxis. A Crundel or Crundwell is therefore a spring or well, with its cistern, trough, or reservoir, to receive the water, such as are still found in the banks by the side of great roads, sometimes furnished with an iron ladle secured by a chain." Leo's Local Nomenclature of the A-Saxons, translated by Williams, p. 95.