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.

Bradfield

Major Settlement in the Parish of Bradfield

Historical Forms

  • (in) Bradanfelda c.690 BCS c.1200
  • Bradanafel 687 c.1200 ib
  • (æt) Bradanfelda 990–2 ASCharters contemporary
  • Bradefelt 1086 DB
  • Bradefeld' 1167 P
  • Braddeffeld 1420 Fine
  • Bredefeld' 1260–1 FF
  • Bradfelde 1316 FA
  • Bradfeld 1517 DInc

Etymology

'At the broad piece of open land', v. brād , feld . The same name occurs in Ess, Nf, Sf, YW. BCS 74, 100, 101 are spurious.

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name