Wargraves
Early-attested site in the Parish of Bromborough
Historical Forms
- Wargraves 1877 Orm2ii
- Wergreaves 1839 TA
- Wargreaves 1838 TA404
Etymology
Wargraves (109–357831), Wargraves 1877 Orm2 ii 427n., Wergreaves 1839TA , a field supposed the site of the battle of Brunanburh . The antiquity of the name is not known. The Rev. Mr Green, incumbent at Bromborough, who informed Helsby (Orm2), obviously supposed it an old f.n., from ME werre 'war', and græf 'a grave, a digging'.There is another example of this f.n., Wargreaves 1838TA 404 in Tushingham cum Grindley 49supra . The final el. is grǣfe 'a wood'.The first el. is probably ME werre (ModEdial. war , cf. ON verri ) adj., 'worse, the less valuable'. Professor Sørensen points out a Danish parallel in the common Funen p.n.Elved (ON illviði ) 'bad wood, wood of no value'. The name is not evidence for a battlefield.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
- Brimston
- Allport Lane & Allport Rd, The Allports
- Bromborough Mills
- Bromborough Pool
- Court Ho
- Rice Wood
- Shodwell
- Wood Lane
Other OS name
- Brimstage Bridge & Brimstage Lane
- New Fm
- Peartree Ho
- Whitehouse Lane
- Bromborough Hall(lost)
- Bromborough New Bridge
- Bromborough Pool Bridge
- Cart Lane(lost)
- New Chester Rd & Old Chester Rd
- Cowpasture Wood
- Devil's Bank
- Dibbinsdale Brook, Dibbinsdale Lodge & Dibbinsdale Rd
- Eastham Sands
- The Green
- Little Hey
- The Marfords
- Mark Rake
- Meadowhouse
- Oakleigh
- Oak Wood
- Poulton Bridge
- The Rake, Rakehouse
- St Patrick's Well
- Shore Wood
- Slack Wood
- Stanhope Ho
- Tile Yard Cottage
- Wetcroft Lane
- Woodlands