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.

Back Brook

Other OS name in the Parish of Plemstall

Etymology

, v. back , brōc , an old channel of R . Gowy forming a watercourse on the boundary between Bridge Trafford and Eddisbury hundred .