Bratley PlainBratley Plain, Ellingham, Harbridge and Ibsley |
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Ellingham, Harbridge and Ibsley Hampshire SU2108 |
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old map: | 25inch County Series map -- Hants LXXI.2 |
Bratley Plain otherwise: Brottele, 1365; Bratteley, 1490 |
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Coates 1989 BRATLEY INCLOSURE, PLAIN and WOOD Old English/Middle English 'brittle clearing/wood'. The Middle English word 'brotel' is used of a tree (about 1325) and (figuratively) of ground (about 1395). See also INCLOSURE. PLAIN This word is used in its ordinary sense of 'large tract of open land' both in the New Forest (BRATLEY PLAIN 'Wilverley Plain, Janesmoor Plain') and in the Forest of Bere (COWPLAIN). |