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.

Barrow Hill

Early-attested site in the Parish of Chaddesley Corbett

Historical Forms

  • atte Berewe 1327 SR

Etymology

v. beorg . This hill has a barrow on it, said to be a prehistoric burial mound (VCH iv. 433).