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.

Bretby

Parish in the County of Derbyshire

Etymology

Part of the parish was transferred to Stanton and Newhall and to the borough of Burton upon Trent, and part of the parish of Hartshorne was added to Bretby in 1934.

Major Settlements