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.

Broom Barrow

Other OS name in the Parish of Little Bredy

Etymology

, 1811 OS , 1841TA , v. brōm ; the name may refer to the tumulus described as motbeorh ' assembly barrow ' in the Anglo - Saxon bounds of Portisham par . infra , this being at a point where the boundaries of three parishes meet .