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.

Broomfields

Early-attested site in the Parish of Dagenham

Etymology

Broomfields (6″) is probably a manorial name derived from a family from Brom (e )feld in Hornchurch (1385, 1497, 1503 HPD).