Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Bruntofte c.1175×1300 GD 1269 GT a.1300 GD 1578 Wills

• Bruncoste 1180×94 Spec late12th ib

• Bruncofte 1188×96 ib

• Bruncoste 1188×96 Finc

• Broncoste 1210 Spec

• Bruntoft 1155 Spec late12th,1198×1204(p) GD early13th(p)etfreqto1397 Spec c.1230 NCD a.1300 GD 1314×15 1326 Elemos 1374 Ct 1387,1421,1512,1638 IPM c.1583 Wills 1644×5 GD 1661 DCDLoosebox1 1662etfreqto1776 Man 1717 Hud

• Brun Toft 1702 Man

• Brunt' 13th Ct c.1280 Spec

• Bruntoft' 1183 BB c.1320 Spec c.1230×50(p)etfreqto1352

• Bruntof' c.1230×50 Spec

• Bru'toft(') c.1240(p),1335 c.1250 Ct

• Brunntoft 1321 Spec

• Bru'tofth c.1325 ib

• Bruntoff 1728 Hud

• Brountoft 1183 BB c.1382 Spec c.1325 IPM 1439,1483,1512×13

• Brountoff 1505 ib

• Bronntofft 1371 Ct

• Bronntoft 1471 Ct

• Brumtoft c.1230 Spec 1242×3 Ass 1482,1613 IPM

• Brumtofte 1500 ib

• Brumptofft c.1260 Elemos

• Brumptoft(') 1312 RPD 1346 Ct

• Brumptoft 1346 Spec

• Brunptoft c.1250 Elemos 1558 Wills

• Bru'ptoft mid13th Elemos 1344 Spec 1430 Spec

• Bruptoft' c.1250 Elemos

• Broumtoft 1218×31 Spec 15th

• uilla de Broumtoft 1256 ib

• Brontoft mid13th 1309 Halm 1347 DCD 1384 Spec 1558 Wills

• Brontofte 1580 Surv

• Bronthoft c.1260 Elemos

• bromtoft 1276 Ct c.1384 Spec

• Brometoft 1301×2 Bek 1567 IPM

• Bromptoft 1349 Lond a.1379 Elemos 1386 Spec 1431etfreqto1559×63 IPM

• Burnetoft 1389 Pat

• Burntoft 1424 Ct 1767 Salvin

• Bruntofte alias Burntofte 1619×20 IPM

• Bruntoft als Burntoft 1650 Salvin

• Manner of Brunetoft als Burnetoft 1653 1820 NRCbox11/19

• Berntoft 1433 ChancH

• Brunt Toft 1723 Hud

• High Bruntoft 1744 SurteesIII236

• (Low) Bruntof Homestead 1839 TA

• Low Bruntoft 1872 Gaz

• capelle de Bruntoft c.1270×80 Spec

• capellam de Bruntoft' 1315 Ct

Etymology

This is usually explained as a compound of ON , ODan  brunnr 'a spring' and ODan  toft 'a building plot, a curtilage' (NbDu 33, EPNE 2183), “the toft upon the burn or stream” Surtees III 88. The reference would be to the stream variously known as North Burn or Close Beck.High Burn Toft, however, is situated at the top of a steep brow overlooking the stream and the specific might, therefore, be ON  brún 'an edge, the brow of a hill'.

There was a chapel at Bruntoft, not recorded by Hadcock; capelle de Bruntoft c.1270×80Spec , capellam de Bruntoft '1315Ct .