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.

Homefield

Other OS name in the Parish of Broomfield

Historical Forms

  • Homfeld t.Hy3 ADi,ii,iv

Etymology

( local ) is Homfeld t. Hy 3 AD i, ii, iv . This may be a compound of OE hamm and feld with later folk - etymologising , or it may be a compound of ' home ' and feld , denoting land near the farm or homestead . See PN Sx 258, PN Sr 271–2 , 369 .

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