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.

Bradstone

Major Settlement in the Parish of Bradstone

Historical Forms

  • brada stane, of brada stane, bradan stane, æt bradan stane c.970 BCS1246
  • Bradestana 1086 DB
  • Bradestona 1174–83 BM
  • Bradestane 1242 Fees789
  • Bradenestan 1244 Ass
  • Braston 1539 LP
  • Bradstone al. Braston 1699 Recov

Etymology

'At the broad stone,' v. brad , stan . This is possibly the one marked on the 6″ map near the present church.

Places in the same Parish