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.

Branksome

Major Settlement in the Parish of Branksome

Historical Forms

  • Branksome Tower 1863 Hutch3

Etymology

seems to have taken its name from a house called Branksome Tower 1863 Hutch3. In view of the absence of early forms, this is probably a late transferred name from Branksome Tower , the setting of Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel , published in 1805; this Branksome is near Hawick in Roxburghshire, Scotland.