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.

Branksome

Other OS name in the Parish of Bowdon

Etymology

, cf. capital messuage called Le Hal (l )e of Bromkes (s )haw (e )1562 ChRR, 1578 Orm2 , v. sc(e)aga ' a wood ' . For the first el . Professor Löfvenberg suggests an OE  *brōmuc ' a clumpof broom ' , ( v. brōm , - uc ) , analogous with such els . as bēosuc ' a tuftof bent-grass ' , riscuc ' a tuft of rushes, a rush-bed ' .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site