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.

Burhill

Early-attested site in the Parish of Broadway

Historical Forms

  • Wadbeorhe 972 BCS1282 c.1050
  • Burrell Hill c.1830 O

Etymology

This name is a compound of beorg and hyll , the old 1″ O.S. name recording a curious triplication of the hill-idea. Working out the bounds of Broadway as found in the great Pershore charter it is clear that the wadbeorh or'woad-hill' of that charter is to be identified with the beorh of Burhill.

Places in the same Parish

Major Settlement