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.

Garbridge

Other OS name in the Parish of Appleby St Lawrence

Historical Forms

  • Garbridge land ends 1718 Hothf

Etymology

, 1859OS , Garbridge land ends 1718Hothf , probably an adaptation of ME  gare-bredes ' strips of land in the gore of the common field ' , v. gāra , brǣdu .