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.

Boy Bridge

Other OS name in the Parish of Abington Pigotts

Historical Forms

  • Boybridge c.1840 TA

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is Boybridge c. 1840TA . Cf. Boybregge s. n. Boyton(PN Ess 426) and Boy Bridge infra 358 . Probably so called from its users .

Places in the same Parish

Major Settlement