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.

Whaybrooke

Field in the Parish of Theddingworth

Historical Forms

  • Whaybrooke 1586 Terrier
  • Whey Brooke 1696 Map

Etymology

Whaybrooke 1586, Whey Brooke 1696 (v. hwǣg, brōc; also recorded in adjoining Husbands Bosworth)