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.

Brog Street

Other OS name in the Parish of Corfe Mullen

Etymology

( a hamlet ) , 1811 OS , possibly from brocc ' badger ' or brōc ' brook ' ( it is near a stream ) , with strete in the sense ' hamlet, straggling village ' ; for the sound develop - ment , cf. Brogdale K 290 .