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.

Bromley Ho

Other OS name in the Parish of Peatling Magna

Etymology

. , remembers Elizabeth Jervis ( ' Beloved Tetty ' ) , the second wife of Dr Samuel Johnson , who is buried at Bromley in Kent . She was born and grew up in Peatling Magna where the Jervis family were lords of the manor for some two hundred years in the 17th and 18th centuries .