-
entry in this
folio is
difficult to explain. It is
followed by Holecher,
Bretebi which Robert H
Skaife identified with
Holker Hall and
neighbouring Birkby...
- (Holker), Orm from the King
Neutun (High and Low Newton), King's land
Bretebi (Birkby), Orm from the King
Further east, in what was
later to
become Westmorland...
- settlement,
Stanhope Bretby,
which was the site of
Bretby Colliery. This
manor (
Bretebi) was in the
Domesday Book in 1086.
Under the
title of "The land of the...
- The name of the village,
first recorded in the
Domesday Book of 1086 as
Bretebi, is
derived from the Old
Norse Breta býr,
meaning "village of Britons"...
