Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Brunestaþe 13 AddCh

• Brunstath 1260 Court 1819 Orm2

• Brunstath in Wyral 13 Whall

• Brunstathe alias Brynston 1555 Orm2

• Brunstath alias Brunston 1579 Dep

• Brunstath or Brunston, Brunstath commonly called Brimstage 1819 Orm2

• the hall of Brunstath 1819 ib

• Brimstache 1275 Ipm 1278 ib

• Bronstathe l13 Bark

• Bronstath 1348 ChGaol

• Bronestath 1343 Bark

• Brunstach 1326 ChRR

• Brunstatch 1340 ChFor

• Bromstache 1335 Pat 1335 Mont 15

• Bromstah 1335 Mont 15

• Brounstat' 1343 AddCh

• Brimstath 1351 BPR 1396 Most 1521 Plea

• Brynstat c.1387 Sheaf336 l15

• Brynstath 1395(p),1408 ChRR l15 Orm2 1521 Plea 1524 ChRR

• Brinstath 1459,1592 Orm2

• Burnstache 1400 ChRR

• Brynstaph 1511 ChRR

• Brunstaph 1511 ChRR

• Brymstath 1549 Orm2

• Brymstaghe 1616 ChRR

• Brimstage 1647 Sheaf 1724 NotCestr

• Brunstath commonly called Brimstage 1819 Orm2

• Brimstage Hall 1831 Bry

• Brinstage 1637 Dep

• Brimsage, Brimsage Hall 1742 NotCestr

Etymology

This must be OE  (æt ) Brūnan stæþe 'Brūna's river-bank', from stæþ 'frontage along a stream, land along the bank of a stream',with the same OE pers.n., Brūna , as in Bromborough 237infra , cf. Brimston infra . In fact, the same person may be involved, giving his name to a settlement at Bromborough and to part of his estate three miles away at Brimstage, a detached part of the same parish.The meaning of stæþ 'a landing-place' is improbable here for the smallness of the water at Brimstage, which is inland, cf. DEPN s.n.The normal development of the first el. is represented by Brun (e )-, Bron (e )-, Brom (e )-, cf. Bromborough loc. cit., the other forms being due to the influence of the cognate OE  pers.n. Brȳni , to scribal confusions of Brun - and Brim -, or to the occasional change u > i as in Dinnington YW 788, cf. Dutton 2112. The normal development of the final el. is represented by -stath (e ), -stat , -staph , and -stah , the others being spelling pronunciations from scribal confusions of -c - and -t - in -stath (e ), -stach (e ).