Great Bardfield, Little Bardfield and Saling Bardfield
Major Settlement in the Parish of Great and Little Bardfield and Bardfield Saling
Historical Forms
- Birdefeldā, Byrdefelda, B(er)defelda 1086 DB
- Petit Byrdefeut 1321 Pat
- Berdefeld(e) maioris 12th Stoke
- Berdefeld(e) magna 1227 Stoke 1459 Pat
- Berdefeud Parva 1235 FF 1303 FA
- Berdefeud Comitis 1432 Tilty
- Berdeford 1403 Cl
- Bordefeud 1235 Ass 1381 IpmR
- Bordeford 1285 Ass
- Brad(e)feud 1235 Ass
- Brad(e)feld 1435–61 Pat
- Brad(e)feyld 1594 N
- Bard(e)feld 1253,1433 Pat 1391,1492 MinAcct
- myche Bard(e)feld 1532 ERxix
- Bradevill 1283 Pat
- Brydefeud 1285 Ass
- Berteville 1360 Cl
- Ber(e)feud ib.
- Ber(e)feld 1375 FF 1403 Pat 1509 LP
- Berdesfeld 1317 FF 1461 Pat
- Berdfeld, Bardesfeld or Bradesfeld or Bradfeld 1486 LP
Etymology
This is a difficult name. It has its parallel in Berdefelde , a minor name in Stapleford (C)1170 LibEl, and in the late Berdefelde (in Wakes Colne) 1504MinAcct , and Bardefelde (in Witham) t. Hy 8 ib. It is probable that the first element in these names goes back to OE ge-byrd , which is found once in the gloss gebyrdum gemære for colono fine . Toller (BT Supplts. v. ge-byran ) takes this, with some hesitation, to mean 'furnished with gebūras ,' OE gebur , gebyr being used of a colonus . The compound may therefore denote 'open land colonised by dependent peasants.' Great was also Comitis from the Earl of Gloucester (Tilty ).
Places in the same Parish
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