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Help[Facts] Bromley?
Does anyone know anything about the name Bromley? I watched a show on Travelling and Living (Discovery Channel) and there was a man named Bromley and he lived in the north of England near Wales. That's all I know, if that helps.
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It's a surname - http://www.last-names.net/surname.asp?surname=Bromley :
From Bromley, a small town in England, so called from brome or broom, and ley, a field or common.
Also, from http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/ins/epncurrent/keytoepn.html :
'Wood/clearing where broom grows'. OE brom, OE leah
and 'Brambley wood/clearing'. OE braembel, OE leah
I think bramble and broom are pretty much interchangeable in this context, but I could be wrong.
From Bromley, a small town in England, so called from brome or broom, and ley, a field or common.
Also, from http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/ins/epncurrent/keytoepn.html :
'Wood/clearing where broom grows'. OE brom, OE leah
and 'Brambley wood/clearing'. OE braembel, OE leah
I think bramble and broom are pretty much interchangeable in this context, but I could be wrong.
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