Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• insule de Bradebyry 1183 BB c.1320

• insule de Bradbire 1183 BB c.1382

• Insula c.1300(p),1330 Ct 1381×2,1415,1417,1423 IPM

• apud Insulam 1307 Lond

• Bradbery 'and the island there 1366 IPM

• 'manor' del Ile 1423 IPM

• Ile 1471,1510 ib

• John Tempest's Estate called Isle 1776 Eldon

• Isle Homestall, Isle Farm Homestead 1839 TA

Etymology

'The island', OFr  ile (from Latin insula ), “lies to the South-west of Bradbury, entirely insulated by the confluence of the Skerne, Rushyford beck, and some smaller feeders … deserted … and dreary and inaccessible. The mansion-house, which stands on a little plot of rising ground, surrounded by a marshy level always liable to be inundated by the sluggish waters of the Skerne …”, Surtees III 43. For the vernacular form with OE  ēgland see Elandeforde in f.ns (b) infra .