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.

Brewershill (Fm)

Early-attested site in the Parish of Houghton Regis

Historical Forms

  • la Bruere 1307 Ass

Etymology

If this identification is correct the name should really be 'Brewer Hill' and the first element interpreted as the equivalent of ModFr  bruyère and used of heath-land. Cf. Sandy Heath supra 109.

Places in the same Parish