Bruern
Major Settlement in the Parish of Bruern
Historical Forms
- Bruaria 1159,62 P
- Bruir' 1162 P
- Brueria 1172 Os 1447 Cl
- (abbas et fratres de) Brueria' Tretoniæ late12th Madox
- Bruiera 1208 Cur 1230 P
- Bruern c.1200 OsReg
- Bruerne 1241 FF 1526 LS
- Bruwere 1217 Cl
- Brewere c.1220–30 Frid c.1425
- Briwer 1221 Bract
- Briwer', Bruwer' 1246 Cl
- Breware 1384 Cl
- Boruerne c.1242–3 AD
- Brewerne 1395 Cl 1526 LS
- Bruarne t.Hy8 Valor
Etymology
Probably the name is OFr bruiere , 'heath,' as in Temple Bruer (L), which suits the topography and accords with the earliest forms.The modern name and the later forms support Ekwall's etymology (DEPN), 'brewery' from OE brēowærn .
Places in the same Parish
Field
- Ashleighs
- Bares Leaze
- Furzy Broads
- Hay Broads
- Cabbage Ground
- Big Cycles
- Little Cycles
- Dimansdale
- Dry Ground
- Hell Patch
- Highwood
- Hill Leaze
- Hop Garden
- Ingreen
- Little Mead
- Long Meadow
- Oak Ground
- Oxleaze ( Oxelese )
- The Park
- The Patches
- Picked ground
- Quarry Piece
- Sandpits
- Sawpit Close
- Square Close
- Thomas 's Ground
- Two Bush
- Vestry Light
- Watermarsh
- Watermeadows
- Asheholde
- Barnefeld
- Bayerdes leyes
- the Calfes lease
- Chappelle close
- Chappell Coppies
- Coweleys
- the Fursey pasture
- Hachewell leyes ( Hachewelle lease )
- Nether and Upper Hey Coppies
- Horseheys
- Horseley close ( the Horselease )
- le Infelde
- le Launde
- Milbourne Coppies
- le Newe leyes
- Nether pole ( the Powles )
- Shepherdes leys
- le Sheres
- Trey meade
- the Barowe fyld
- Candesdene
- Course mede
- Gyttyng
- Nether Getyng
- Hynchelwyke
- the mede close
- the Newfyld
- the New close
- Sewell Graynge
- The Shalkes
- Thornlese
- Town Close