English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

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Brakes

Other OS name in the Parish of Sedgefield

Historical Forms

  • brakes c.1200 Elemos
  • brakles 1534 ib
  • Brakes Farmhouse and field 1839 TA

Etymology

, brakes c.1200Elemos , brakles 1534ib , Brakes Farmhouse and field 1839TA , cf. Bracks Pasture , Brakes Cl in f. ns . ( a ) infra : OE bracu , ME  brake ' a brake, brushwood, a thicket ' , also ' bracken, fern ' .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site