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.

Bury Barton

Early-attested site in the Parish of Lapford

Historical Forms

  • Beria 1086 DB
  • Bury 1503 Ipm

Etymology

v. burh . This may have been some stronghold guarding the passage of the River Yeo here.

Places in the same Parish