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.

Cornborough

Early-attested site in the Parish of Abbotsham

Historical Forms

  • Hornbrough 1755 Recov

Etymology

v. horn , beorg . horn may have referred to the prominent angle of land here. The change of initial consonant is apparently quite recent.

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Places in the same Parish