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.

Bramses

Early-attested site in the Parish of Bexhill

Historical Forms

  • Breesle 13th Add
  • Bremesleye 1341 Pat
  • Bremmesle 1430 AOMB56
  • Bramses 1840 TA

Etymology

Bramses (not on map) is Bre esle (13thAdd ), Bremesleye (1341 Pat), Bremmesle (1430AOMB 56), Bramses (1840TA ). 'Brēme 's leah,' with the same pers. name that is found in Bromsgrove (PN Wo 336).