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.

Bugbrooke

Major Settlement in the Parish of Bugbrooke

Historical Forms

  • Buchebroc 1086 DB 1359 Ipm
  • Buchebroch 1086 DB
  • Buttebroc c.1175 Dunstable
  • Butebroc 1194 P 1206 Cur
  • Buddebroc 1195 Abbr
  • Bockebrok 1247 Ass 1293 Ipm 1330 FA
  • Bukbrok 1332 Cl
  • Bucbroke 1428 FA
  • Boogbrooke 1595 NRSiii
  • Bugbroke al. Budbroke 1598 Recov

Etymology

'Brook of the bucks' (v. bucc ) or 'of the goats' (v. bucca ), or of a man named Bucca .

Places in the same Parish