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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.

Teynebrygis

Field in the Parish of Rearsby

Historical Forms

  • Teynebrygis 1467×84 LTD
  • Teynybrigges 1467×84 LTD
  • Tynbryges 1467×84 LTD

Etymology

Teynebrygis, Teynybrigges, Tynbryges 1467 × 84, Tenbrigges 1601, 1612, 1675 (v. tēn, brycg; a sequence of ten causeways across marshy ground seems to be alluded to here)