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.

Middleborough

Early-attested site in the Parish of Battle

Historical Forms

  • Media borga 1248 AOMB18
  • villata de Middelburgh 1327 SR

Etymology

Middleborough (lost) is Media borga 1248AOMB 18, villata de Middelburgh 1327 SR, the name of one of the 'borghs' into which the Hundred of Battle was divided. v. supra 495.