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Burrough On The Hill

Major Settlement in the Parish of Somerby

Historical Forms

  • Bvrg 1086 DB
  • Burg 1213 Abbr 1236 Fine 1303,1308 Ipm
  • Burg' c.1130 LeicSurv 1184 Dane 1248 RGros 1254 Val
  • Burgo 1086 DB 1184 Dane c.1291 Tax 1316 FA
  • Bvrc 1086 DB
  • Burk a.1250(1404),m.13(1404),Hy3(1404) Laz
  • Burk' Hy3 1404 ib
  • Burk(g)h Hy3 1404 ib
  • Burgh 1193×1207 Dugd 1242 Fees 1325 Inqaqd 1330 Cl 1388 Misc 1398 Pat 1522 Fine 1536 Braye
  • Burgh alias Erdeborough 1615 Ipm
  • Erdburg 1201 OblR 1251 Fine
  • Erdburgo c.1290 Dugd
  • Erdburgh 1288 Coram 1321 Brase 1514 Ipm 1518 CoPleas
  • Erdborow 1306 Deed
  • Erdborou 1306,1361 ib
  • Erdeburgh 1245 Fine 1302 Cl 1336 KB c.1430 RTemple 1346 Pat 1398 Cl 1398 FA 1428 Braye 1431
  • Erdeburghe 1537 MinAccts
  • Erdeborowght 1572 LeicW
  • Erdeborowe 1604 SR
  • Erburg 1251 Cur 1270 Fine 1292 Ipm
  • Erburgh 1262 RGrav 1288 Ass 1494 Pat
  • Erborough 1510 Rental
  • Erthburg c.1247,1283,1285 RTemple 1327 SR
  • Erthboru 1281 RTemple
  • Erth(e)burgh 1313 Banco 1327 SR 1330 Cl
  • Ardburght 1475×85 ECP
  • Ardbrogh 1480 Pap
  • Ard(e)borough 1510 LP 1626 Fine
  • Ard(e)borowe 1578,1583 LEpis
  • Borow(e) 1323 Inqaqd 1518 Visit 1526 AAS 1574 LEpis
  • Borow(e) alias Ard(e)borowe 1578,1583 ib
  • Borow(e) alias Erdborough 1614 Ipm
  • Boro 1535 VE
  • Borrow(e) 1536 Dugd 1537 MinAccts
  • Borough(e) 1541 1614 Ipm
  • Borough(e) alias Erdeboroughe 1588 Fine
  • Borowgh 1571 LeicW
  • Burow or Erdeborow 1537 MinAccts
  • Burrow(e) 1576 Saxton 1576 LibCl 1610 Speed 1621 LML
  • Burrough 1612 Nichols
  • Burrough alias Ardborough 1626,1627 Fine
  • Burrough-on the-Hill 1641 LML

Etymology

'The fortress', v. burh ; and 'the fortress built of earth', v. eorð-burh.There is a superb Iron Age hill-fort on Burrough Hill north of the village, possibly the caput of the Corieltauvi, v. Lei 13–4. The location of the present settlement, with its 13th century church, lies on a hill across a deep valley from the earthwork. There is no evidence that the hill-fort itself was ever the site of an early Anglo-Saxon village.However, traces of Romano-British occupation have been discovered there.