John Briggs wrote:
> Presumably Purbrook ('puck brook') was the name of the stream
In view of Carole Hough's *pohha/*pocca article, can we be so sure this is 'puck brook' any more?
In fact Polebrook (Northants) is one of her examples, and we have
Polebrook Pokebroc 1207
Purbrook Pokebroc 13th.
Keith
Reference: C. Hough, 'Place-name evidence for an Anglo-Saxon animal name: OE *pohha/*pocca "fallow deer"', Anglo-Saxon England 30 (2001), 1-14.
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