Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Brootes, Brottes 1538 Riev

Etymology

The name occurs elsewhere in the North Riding, in Broats in Dalton 183infra and as a field-name, and it is the same as the Norw  p.n. Braaten (Rygh, NG Indledning 45 and NG passim and particularly i. 17, ii. 116) which is derived from ON  broti 'a heap of trees felled in a wood' and so 'a clearing in a wood.'Cf. Fenbrotes , Lang (e )brotes , Morbrotes , Smalbrotes , Dunlangabrotes as 13th cent. field-names.