Bourton Brake
Early-attested site in the Parish of Buckingham
Historical Forms
- The Breach c.1825 O
Etymology
The dialectal breach , 'land broken up by the plough,' used locally a few years ago (Harman), has unfortunately, here and elsewhere on the modern O.S. maps, been replaced by the word brake . Cf. la Breche in Chetwode (FF 1240).