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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.

Bruntingthorpe Holt

Other OS name in the Parish of Bruntingthorpe

Etymology

( 2 ½ ″ ) , v. wald ; the development of wald locally was *wald > *wold > olde > oult > olt > holt , v. the Olt field in f. ns . ( b ) and cf. Walton Holt in Kimcote and Walton .