Brook Street
Early-attested site in the Parish of South Weald
Historical Forms
- Sideburn(e)broc 1198 Cur
- Sideburn(e)brok 1337 Cl 1439 Pap
- Sydeburnebrok 1339 Pat
- Sideburgbroc 1233 Pat
- Syde(n)b(o)ur(gh)broc 1234 ib
- Syde(n)b(o)ur(gh)broke 1391 Cl
- Sed(e)bur(ghe)brok(e) 1270 Pat 1313 FF 1372 Londin 1376 Cl
- Sed(e)boruebrok(e) 1323 For
- Sed(e)burybrok(e) 1390 IpmR
- Sudburybroke 1392 Cl
- Zedeburwebrok', Zeteburwebrok' 1276 For
- Sedeburnebroke 1288 Misc
- Sidyngbournebrok 1341 Pat
- Brok(e)stre(e)t(e) 1479 Will
- Brok(e)stre(e)t(e) alias Southbroke 1533 FF 1535 VE
- Brok(e)stryt 1551 SWealdPR
- bruckstrett 1540,1541 ib
- Sydbornebrook alias Brookestrete 1608 EAviii
Etymology
'The brook by the wide earthwork,' v. sid , burh , broc . Just north of the source of the brook that flows past Brook Street is the site of a “circular camp, single ditched, inclosing about seven acres” (M i, 117). The forms with -b (o )urne - show a common confusion of unstressed elements, cf. PN NbDu 270 (§ 10).Street because on the Roman road to Colchester.