The famous Bretton Woods apparently takes its name from West Bretton in Yorkshire:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bretton
Regards,
Martin Counihan
> Sent: Monday, November 06, 2017 at 9:45 PM
> From: "Tom Ikins" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Subject: Re: Bretton, Hunts.
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> Or perhaps the un-recorded name of a wood, green, etc. The school was named Bretton Woods.
> Doesn't look easy.
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> ---- Steve Doerr <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > The name doesn't seem to feature on OS maps before 1976. Probably a
> > modern invention.
> >
> >
> > Steve
> >
> >
> > On 06/11/2017 16:16, Tom Ikins wrote:
> > > Thanks Richard,
> > > My interest was that Milton Park (in Bretton) is the source of a stream that flows past the Roman fort at Longthorpe, in theory named Brivis (like the river Brue). That name I expect was incorporated into that of the nearby defended settlement at Water Newton, Duro-brivis.
> > >
> > > Pretty much the same at Rochester, info on Jane's Creek is practically non-existent, other than rip-tides there.
> > >
> > >
> > > ---- Richard Coates <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > >> Can't find any in the EPNS county volume or DEPN.
> > >>
> > >> Richard
> > >>
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: The English Place-Name List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tom Ikins
> > >> Sent: 06 November 2017 13:52
> > >> To: [log in to unmask]
> > >> Subject: [EPNL] Bretton, Hunts.
> > >>
> > >> Are there any early forms of Bretton, Hunts. TF165005 ?
> > >> I've found some person names in the Lay Subsidy Rolls- Bretoun, Breton, and Breton'- but can't be certain they are related. Nothing in Skeats, don't have Mawer.
> > >>
> > >> Tom Ikins
> > > Tom Ikins
> > >
> Tom Ikins
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