1 gen 1600 anni - brier

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Although used of the wild rose this word had the more general meaning ‘prickly, thorny bush’ and it is particularly common in minor place-names. 1253 <i>breretwisel</i> (PNWR7/162); 1275 <i>Brereforlong</i> (YRS29/113). The headword spelling used here developed from ‘brere’ and it became more usual from the sixteenth century, although the two existed side by side and ‘brere’ or ‘brear’ persisted at the local level: <i>c</i>.1580 <i>tent shepe upon dry ground In woods and brears let them not stay</i>, Woodsome (KayeCP); 1600 <i>All Bryers, in English, furres </i>[furze]<i> & whinnes</i>, Settrington (YRS126/39);. The surnames Brearley and Brierley share the same family origin.

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