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.

Burnelandez

Field in the Parish of Bottesford

Historical Forms

  • Burnelandez 1427 Rut

Etymology

Burnelandez 1427 (v. land; the first el. is prob. OE   bryne / ON   bruni' (a place cleared by) burning', with metathesis, cf. byrnelandis in Bottesford f. ns. (b))