Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Brineshal(e) 1086 DB 12 Font 1270 Ebor

• Brinshale, Brynshale 1086 DB 1304

• Brynshall 1471 FountPres

• Brinneshal(e) 12 Font

• Brinnesal 1203–20 ib

• Brynsal(e), Brinsal(e) 1140 Whit 1175–87 YChvii 13 YDi a.1233 YChvii 1234 FF 1428 FA

• Brinsal(e) in Cravene 1301 Ebor

• Brinsall 1198 Fount 1285 KI 1303 KF 1535 VE

• Brinisale 1179–90 YChvii

• Brinesala 1190–1210 ib

• Brynesall 1375 YDi

• Brunisale 1179–1202 YChvii

• Brunsella c.1190 Pont

• Brunesall 1203–20 Font

• Brunsale 1286 Ebor 1371 Baild 1437 YDi

• Brunnishall' 1202 FF

• Brunshale 1348 Ch

• Burn(e)sall 1409 YDi 1433 Baild 1442 Testii 1496 FF 1654 PRLnt

• Burn(e)sall in Crauen 1654 PRBrn

• Burn(e)saull 1525 Testv 1555 WillY

• Birn(e)sall, Byrn(e)sall 1457 FountBurs 1535 VE

• Byrn(e)sall in Craven 1494 WillY

• Bronsall 1465 YDix

• Brensall in Craven 1466 Testii

Etymology

'Brȳni's nook of land', v. halh (here the piece of land on which the village stands and which is within a bend of the R. Wharfe). The pers.n. is OE  Brȳni (a mutated form of Brūn ). The later metathesised forms Birn -, Burn - are normal.