English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Bromborough Pool

Early-attested site in the Parish of Bromborough

Historical Forms

  • Bromborough Pool 1842 OS

Etymology

Bromborough Pool (109–3484), Bromborough Pool 1842 OS, cf. le Pul 1274–80, 1291–1323 Chest, le Pull 1313 ib, referring to Dibbinsdale Brook infra at Poulton Bridge 252infra and Bromborough Mills supra , and to Bromborough Pool at Bromborough Pool Bridge infra , 'the creek', v. pull .