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.

Brough

Early-attested site in the Parish of Grinton

Historical Forms

Borch 1086 DB

Burgh 1184 RichReg

Etymology

v. burh . Earthworks exist here (VCH i. 302).

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Major Settlement