Barrowden
Major Settlement in the Parish of Barrowden
Historical Forms
- Berchedone 1086 DB
- Berchedun e13 Rut
- Bergedunam 1141 Reg
- Bergedona(m) 1153 ib
- Bergedon' 1202 Ass 1220 Cur
- Bergendona 1105–7 Reg 1130 P
- Beregedun 1201 Ass
- Beregedon' 1202 1206(p),1210 Cur
- Ber(h)don 1316,1317 Cl 1349 Ch 1428 FA
- Ber(o)ugdon 1342,1344 Pat 1431 Fine
- Berewedon(e) 1212 RBE 1220 FF 1364 Pap
- Berwedon(e) 1213 FF 1219,1231 Cur 1377 Fine
- Berewdon' 1205 RFinib
- Bereudon(e) 1321 FF
- Berudon' 1268 Cl 1268 Ipm 1336 BelCartB e15
- Berwdon' 1272 e15 ib
- Beroudon' 1269 e15 SR 1327
- Berowydon 1556 Conant
- Barghedon 1263 Ass
- Barghdon 1459 Pat
- Barugdon 1428 FA
- Barroghdon 1459 AD
- Barowghdon 1486,1551 Pat
- Bar(r)oug(h)don 1490 1535 VE 1555 Conant 1610 Speed
- Barodon 1471 Peake 1537 MinAcct
- Bat(r)owdon 1479 Pat 1511 LP 1552 Pat
- Bar(r)adon 1503 1621 FF
- Bar(r)oughden 1479,1551 Pat 1552 Conant
- Bar(r)owden 1487 Cl 1498 Ipm 1695 Map
Etymology
'The hill with burial mounds upon it', v. beorg , dūn . The barrows, already ancient when the Anglo-Saxons arrived in the region, stood on the ridge overlooking R. Welland. The line of barrows continued in neighbouring Seaton, in Thorpe by Water and in Lyddington. To the north-east, the crop marks of what are probably ploughed-out tumuli lie along R. Welland in Tixover parish, v. Crop Marks 64–5, 74–5.