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.

Bracken Hills

Field in the Parish of West Ravendale

Historical Forms

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Bracken hills 1630 DC

Etymology

Bracken Hills1779, 1800, 1814, 1821, 1835, 1842(Bracken hills 1744, cf. The Brachenhill close(sic) 1630, v. brakni, hyll)

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Major Settlement

West Ravendale