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.

Barnhorne, Upper and Lower

Early-attested site in the Parish of Bexhill

Historical Forms

  • on berna hornan, on byrna hornan 772 BCS208 c.1300
  • Bernehorn(e) t.Hy2 Pat 1434 AsM 1405
  • Bernhorn 1203 Cur 1519 AsM
  • Berenhorn 1333 Pat
  • Barnehorne 1535 VE

Etymology

The first element is the pers. name Byrna (cf. PN Bk 216).The second is horn(a), 'corner of land,' descriptive of land protruding into the marsh. For the weak form horna , Professor Ekwall notes the parallel of Warehorne (K), Werahorna BCS 396.