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.

Brangull

Early-attested site in the Parish of Hesket in the Forest

Historical Forms

  • Bromegil(l) 1369 Fine 1370 Orig 1394,1427,1437 Pat
  • Brumegill(e) 1366 Orig 1375 Fine 1378 Pat
  • (Le) Brumgill(e) 1387,1451 Fine 1406 IpmR 1437,1467 Pat
  • Le Broungill 1380,1390 Pat 1386 Fine
  • Broumgill 1456 Fine
  • Brungill 1460 ib
  • Brangull 1512 LP 1541 LRMB

Etymology

'Broom-grown ravine,' v. brōm , gil .