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.

Bricefield

Other OS name in the Parish of Maiden Bradley

Historical Forms

  • Brysefeld 1536 MinAcct

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is Brysefeld 1536MinAcct . The first element is possibly the word breeze , ' gadfly , ' which in the 10th and 11th centuries sometimes appears in the form brise .