Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Glanford' 1183,1184 P

• Glaunford 1314 Pat

• pontem de Glamford 1203 P

• punt de Glanford' 1218 Ass

• pontem de Glanford' 1235 FineR 1237 RRG

• Glanford Brigg 1235 Ch

• Glanford Brigge 1329 Pat

• Glanfordbrig c.1360 Gough

• Glanfordbrigge 1442 Inqaqd

• Glanfordbrige 1509–10 LPi

• Glannford Brigge 1374 Peace

• Glannforde Brigge 1375 ib

• Glannfordbrigge 1376 ib

• Glannforthbrigge 1373 ib

• “the bridge of” Glaunford 1256 FF 1312,1313 Pat

• pontem de Glaunford' 1259 Cl 1276 RH

• pontem Glaunford 1276 RH

• Pont' de Glaunford 1281 QW

• ponte de Glaunford 1332 SR

• Pons Glaunford 1316 FA

• Glaunford Brigge 1318 Pat

• Glaunfordbrigge 1318 1328 Banco 1375 Peace 1380 Pat 1387 Misc 1465 Pat

• Glaunfordbrigg 1330 Cl 1332,1349 Pat 1351 Cl 1462 Pat

• Glaunford Brigg 1329,1462 ib

• Glaunfordbrygge 1329 Ass 1381 Misc

• Glaunfordbrig 1356 ib

• “the bridge and causeway of” Glaunford 1362 Ipm

• Glaunfordebrigge 1330 Ipm 1335 Misc 1535 VEiv

• Glaunforthbrig 1337 Pat

• Glaunforthbrigge 1393 Cl

• Glaunforthbryg 1395 Works

• Glaunforthebrigge 1382 Cl

• Glamfordbrigges 1331 Pat

• Glamfordbrig 1367 Misc 1383 Pat 1398 Cl 1475 Pat

• Glamford Brygg 1494 Ipm

• Glamforthbrig 1374 Pat 1538–9 Dugdvi

• Glamfurthbriges 1519 LPiii

• Glamfordbridge 1576 Saxton

• Glamford Bridge 1600 Hall

• Glamfordbrigges 1610 Speed

• ponte de Glaumforde 1327 SR

• Glaumfordbrigg 1359 Pat 1375 MiD

• Glaumfordbrig 1379 Ipm

• Glaumfordbrigge 1432 Fine 1441 Pat

• Glaumfordbrygg 1449 Fine

• Glaumforthbryg 1338 Cl

• Glaumforthbrige 1417 Cl

• Glaumforthbrygg 1431 FA

• Glauntfordbrig 1359 Ipm

• Glaymfordbrigg 1405 Pat

• Glamysforthe Bridge 1536 LPxi

• Clamforthbrigges (sic) 1537 LPxii

• Clamforth Brigges 1555 Pat

• Brigg alias Glanford Brigg 1674 Elw

• Brigge 1681 BT

• Brig 1682 ib

• Brigg 1734 Foster

Etymology

Glanford is almost certainly derived from OE  glēam 'revelry, joy, merriment' and ford, probably in the sense 'the ford where sports are held', as suggested by Ekwall (DEPN, s.n. Glandford).The forms in Glaum - and Glaun - are Scandinavianised, showing the influence of ON  glaumr , cognate with glēam, while spellings in -forth (e )- are similarly Scandinavianised forms of ford . To this was added Brigg, from ON  bryggja 'a jetty, a quay', but which here refers to a bridge over the R. Ancholme, as the Latin forms clearly show - note also the 1362 Ipm reference to “the bridge and causeway of Glaunfordbrig ” and also “Hugh atte Brigge of Glamforthebrigge ”1313 Pat. The parish is known as Glanford Brigg, formerly a part of Wrawby; the town is called Brigg.