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.

the Broad mere

Field in the Parish of Rearsby

Historical Forms

  • 1828 Terrier
  • Brodemere 1467×84 LTD
  • Brawde meyre 1467×84 LTD
  • broad meere 1625 Terrier

Etymology

the Broad mere 1828 (Brodemere, Brawde meyre 1467 × 84, broad (e) meare 1601, 1612, 1648, broad meere 1625, (the) Broad Meer 1675, 1679 et passim to 1745, v. brād; with (ge) mǣre or mere 1)