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.

Brayden Marshes

Other OS name in the Parish of Horsey

Etymology

, cf. Braidens 1838 TA , may be of the same Scand  origin as Breydon in Breydon Water in Yarmouth supra , i.e. breiðingr ' broadening in a river ' , perhaps transferred as a family name .