Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Sibroc 1086 DB

• Sybbroc Major et Sybbroc Minor 1278 Ipm

• Sybbrok 1348 MinAcct

• S(c)hi(b)broc, S(c)hi(b)brok(e) 13 AD 1248 Pat 1384 Ipm 1311 Plea 1325

• Shy(b)broc(k), Shy(b)brook(e), S(c)hi(b)broc(k), S(c)hi(b)bro(o)k(e) 1287 Sheaf 18 Ipm 1295 ChRR 1581

• Schiberoc 1284 CASNSii

• Schibbroke Major 1295 Ipm

• Litelshibbrok 1410 Plea

• S(c)hypbrok(e), S(c)hipbrok(e) 1252 RBE 1254,1277 P 1295 Ipm

• S(c)hipbrook(e) 1287 Orm2

• Shipbrok on Rudheth 1346 BPR

• Lytelshipbrok 1348 Eyre

• Litelshipbrok 1422 ChRR

• Shipbrook Hill 1831 Bry

• Siphpbroc 1288 Court

• Chippebroc 1288 Chest

• Schubbrok' 1311 Chol

• S(c)hilbrok(e) 1311 IpmR 1312

• Schelbroke 1312 InqAqd

• S(c)hidbrok(es) 1321 AddCh 1354 MinAcct

• Skipbrok 1370 MinAcct

• Shebroke 1407 Cl

• Litel Shebroke 1478 ChRR

• Magna Shebroke, Parva Shebroke 1514 Plea

• She(a)brook(e) 1624 Earw 1637 ChRR

• Shribbroke 1530 AD

• Seabrook(e) 1624 Earw

• She(e)pbrooke 1650 LRMB278 1650 Surv 18

• baronia de Schipbrouk 1317 Misc

Etymology

'Sheep-brook', perhaps a brook where sheep were washed, v. scēap , brōc , and hyll , maior , minor , lȳtel , cf. Rudheath 111.Some forms show confusion with *scell, *scille 'noisy' (as in Shell Brook 167), and scīd 'a beam (possibly a foot-bridge)'. Shipbrook was the seat of the Vernon family's barony baronia de Schipbrouk 1317 Miscet freq. Castle Hill (110–672712) 1819 Orm2 iii253, from which the remains of a castle were removed c.1789, marks their stronghold. A later house was near Manor Fm infra .