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Survey of English Place-Names

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Burleigh Ho, Burleigh Arches

Early-attested site in the Parish of Worth

Historical Forms

  • Burhlea 765 BCS197 c.1300
  • Burghele 1279 Ass
  • Bourghele 1332 SR
  • Burle 1296,1332 SR
  • Borle 1327 SR
  • Berchelie 1086 DB
  • Berlegh 1332 SR
  • Burlearch, Burlyarch 1543 Ct
  • Burley arches 1621 SRS14,130

Etymology

'Clearing by or with a burh on it,' v. leah . Burleigh was a manor of the Archbishop's and it is probable that the appended Arch or Arches is due to popular use of a scribal contraction for archiepiscopi used in local written records. The DB form shows the same confusion as in Burpham supra 166.