Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• clæg broc, (to) clæg broce 962 BCS1096 13 S

• Claibroc 1086 DB a.1186,l.Hy2 Dane 1205,1210 P

• Claibrok(e) 1220 MHW 1316 FA

• Claebroc c.1200 Dane

• Cleibroc e.Hy2 Dane 1199 FF 1200 Cur 1224 RHug

• Cleibroke 1335 Ipm

• Cleybroc 1212 RBE 1224 RHug

• Cleybrok(e) 1265 Abbr 1267 Cur 1515 Deed 1548 Pat 1571 LEpis

• Claybroc 1259 GildR 1261 RGrav 1274 Ipm 1282 LCDeeds

• Claybrock 1261 RGrav 1307 Wyg 1414 LCDeeds

• Claybroke(e) 1267,1268 Cur 1494 Banco 1495 Ipm 1541 1576 Saxton 1725 LML

• Claybrouk 1384 Wyg

• Claybrook(e) 1396,1397 Cl 1428 Peake 1535 VE

• Clebrooke 1528 LWills 1549 Pat

• Clebrowke 1528 LWills

• Clebrocke 1576 LibCl

• Magna ~ 1261 RGrav 1285,1316 FA

• ~ Magna 1428 FA

• Nether ~ 1397 Ipm 1399 Cl 1414 LCDeeds 1515 AD 1701,1725 LML

• Neither ~ 1702 ib

• Lower ~ 1784 Terrier 1807 Nichols

Etymology

'The stream with the clayey bed', v. clǣg , brōc . The settlement was later afforded the affixes MLat  magna 'great', and nether and lower to distinguish it from adjoining Claybrooke Parva which stands on higher ground.

For Claybrooke (both ~ Magna and ~ Parva) within a Romano-British territorium and early Anglo-Saxon estate context, v. C. Phythian-Adams, Continuity , Fields and Fission : the Making of a Midland Parish , Leicester University Department of English Local History, Occasional Papers (Third Series 4), 1978.