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Survey of English Place-Names

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Brank Well

Other OS name in the Parish of Bottesford

Historical Forms

  • Brank well 1797 EnclA

Etymology

, 1887TAMap , Brank well 1797EnclA , v. wella ' a spring ' , topographically appropriate ; the first el . is perhaps brank ' buckwheat ' , v. NED s.v. brank , sb .