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.

Shorne Hill

Other OS name in the Parish of Brooke

Etymology

, at the head of a stream which flows into R . Chater ; possibly from OE  scearn ' dung, muck ' , alluding to wet ground .