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.

Bonnycrofts

Field in the Parish of Bottesford

Historical Forms

  • 1850 TA

Etymology

Bonnycrofts (v. croft; if not a late form of Brennycroft in f. ns. (b), then with the surn. Bonny / Bunny, cf. Bunny's Spinney in Lt. Dalby)