I would be grateful for information about the origins and/or naming of Crundale. I'm in the process of revising and article I wrote in 1998 discussing the origins of the surname Crandall and it's many variant spellings. (If anyone's interested you can find the original at www.cfa.net/cfa/crundel.html.) My belief is that this surname derives from proximity to to a landscape feature known as a crundel, many of which were used as boundary markers in Anglo-Saxon manorial charters. Some may have been the location of chalk quarries, i.e. Crondall in HAM and Crundale in KEN. Somehow, from the limited knowledge I have, Crundale in PEM doesn't seem to fit. In "The Surnames of Wales" (1996) John and Sheila Rowlands discuss the surname Crunn (pp.87-88) and offer this intriguing statement: "By 1670 [Pembrokeshire Hearth Tax] John Crunn is an inhabitant of Dale, and, in 18C, a number of Crunns are found in central and north Pembrokeshire." I'm unable to find Dale, but wonder if perhaps Crundale might have had a later foundation (late 17th or 18th centuries) perhaps by the Crunn family. Any thoughts? Herb Crandell Michigan, USA