Old English Names

broad clearing or broad wood

head, skull, or the organ of thought

A thicket or thorny shrub

Broom well or broom spring

broom-covered hill

sword, fiery torch, beacon

broom-covered hill

sword, prince, or broom-hill

broom ford

sword, fiery marsh, or brushwood clearing

nook of land where broom shrub grows

possibly 'badger' or 'broken'

Brock's town

salmon, broad, or brave

brave, broad, or salmon

broad settlement or settlement by the River Bray

high, powerful; places of marshes

prince, or broom-covered hill

Hill, high place; from a place name

Bryni's settlement; from Brenta

from the town of Bretherton

bridge man, dweller by the bridge

settlement by the bridge

bright courage

bright ruler

burnt wood clearing

burnt meadow or bramble meadow

from Britain and Inger (Ing's army)

from Britain; beautiful, Ing's beauty

from Britain; famous warrior

from Britain (Britt) and wisdom (Sofi)

from Britain; a Briton

badger

broad, wide

from the brook or stream

Of the brook; living near a brook or stream

brown color, dark-haired

brown spear

Thorny plant; heather

burned meadow

burned meadow

from the barn

from Britain; settlement of Britons

from the buck clearing or deer meadow

hill, dwelling

from the beautiful ford

From the fortress or from the birch tree

from the fortress