-
either the
personal name of Mærle ("Merlin")
combined with
beorg (hill), or
meargealla beorg: hill
where gentian grows. On John Speed's map of Wiltshire...
- Thomas. The
origin of the place-name is from the Old
English words galga and
beorg meaning gallows hill and
appears as
Galgbergh in 1304. In A Topographical...
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dialectal variants including "burg"; it was also
sometimes confused with beorh,
beorg, 'mound, hill', on
which see Hall 2001, 69–70). The Old
English word was...
- in the
Domesday Book of 1086 as Wadberge,
meaning Old
English wad "woad"
beorg "hill". Woad dye
production was
usually carried out at some
distance from...
- bury, -bury (< OE burg, burh "city, town, fortification");
barrow (< OE
beorg) baurgs, OHG burg "fortress, citadel"; OHG
Burgunt (a
female personal name)...
-
means "hill or
mound frequented by crows", from the Old
English crāwe +
beorg. In 1734, Sir
Henry Fermor, a
local benefactor,
bequeathed money for a church...
- Old
English beorg or berg
meaning hill but as
there is no real hill in
Aigburth the
sense here is more
likely to be
rising ground.
Beorg or berg is more...
- and 1066.
Originally a
small village,
believed to have been
called Hæfera-
beorg (Harborough),
meaning "oat hill". In 1086 the
Domesday Book
records Bowden...
- it
means "dew hill", from Old
English dēaw (genitive dēawes), "dew", and
beorg, "hill" (because
Dewsbury is
built on a hill). It has been
suggested that...
