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.

Braunston Church

Other OS name in the Parish of Braunston

Historical Forms

  • Church (All Saints) 1846,1863,1877 1932 Kelly

Etymology

, Church (All Saints )1846, 1863, 1877 ib,1932 Kelly ; on an ancient religious site , to judge from the surviving monolithic figure of the Celtic or Romano - British mother goddess now preserved beside the church tower .