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.

Bornesses

Early-attested site in the Parish of Croft

Historical Forms

  • Burghanes 13 VCHi.163

Etymology

The history of this name is that given by Ekwall (PN La 85) for Burwains, from OE  *burgæns 'burial place,' in which he shows that it is cognate with OE  byrgan 'bury' and identical with the common dialectal borrens , borwens . v. 325infra , s.v. *burgæsn.

Places in the same Parish