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Survey of English Place-Names

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Barefoots Barn, Barefoots Copse

Other OS name in the Parish of Tilehurst

Historical Forms

  • Bearfoot Fm 1846 Snare
  • Barfot 1331 Cl 1348 Pat

Etymology

, Bearfoot Fm 1846 Snare ; probably a surname , the name Barefot occurs in Berks c. 1160 ( F . M . Stenton , The First Century of English Feudalism , 278 ) and in the form Barfot 1331 Cl, 1348 Pat . None of these refs . is to land in Tilehurst , however , and another possibility is e.ModE  berefot ' hellebore ' given for Bearfoot Wood Gl 3 , 193 .