Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Babrinchull 1423 Orm2

• barberin(g)chal c.1281–90 JRL

• molendinum de Babrinchall' e14 ib

• 'a certain mill or mill-site' c.1300 Dav

• 'molendinum de Olreton' c.1281–90 JRL

• 'on Wylebrok in le Bothis' e14 JRL25

Etymology

Babrinchull (lost), Babrinchull 1423 Orm2, barberin (g )chal c.1281–90 JRL, molendinum de Babrinchall 'e14 ib, a difficult name, perhaps 'nook or valley at a place called Boar 's brink ', v. bār 2 , brink , halh , in which the medial consonant-group -inkh - has been treated as the -ingh - > -inch - form in the type of p.n. represented by Altrincham 7supra .The place was the location of 'a certain mill or mill-site 'c.1300Dav , 'molendinum de Olreton 'c.1281–90 JRL, in Ollerton, 'between the road from le Bothes to Olreton on one side, and the watercourse of Marthal ' on the other', and it is 'on Wylebrok in le Bothis 'e14 JRL 25, (i.e. Birkin Brook 115). This location must have been about 101–780775, hardly a 'brink'. Perhaps the name is really an -ing 2 formation upon an unidentified component. This does not resemble a pers.n., and it is unfortunate that ME  barberi 'the barberry', is not recorded before the fifteenth century (NED).