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.

Burnt Bottom

Other OS name in the Parish of Hooke

Historical Forms

  • Brimpton Bottom 1839 TA

Etymology

, Brimpton Bottom 1839TA , cf. Fore Brimpton , Brimpton Mdw 1839ib , probably to be associated with brumdun 1035 ' broom hill ' in the Saxon bounds of Corscombe par . infra .