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Survey of English Place-Names

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Brougham Park

Other OS name in the Parish of Brougham

Historical Forms

  • her Ladys Parke 1651 BdyR

Etymology

, her Ladys Parke 1651BdyR , a park near Brougham Castle ; her Lady is doubtless Lady Anne Clifford , who wrote that in 1658 ' was finished … the new wall about the Little Park adjoyning Brougham Castle' (CliffordL 84) .