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.

Boulder Bridge Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Silkstone

Historical Forms

  • Buldirbrig 1495 Testiv

Etymology

, Buldirbrig 1495 Test iv , ME bulder , brycg , probably a small rough bridge made of boulders across the R . Don ; cf. Boulder Bridge 276supra .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site