1: English (Bedfordshire): topographic name for someone who lived ‘(by the) broad place’ typically a cultivated strip of land in an area of common land from Middle English brede (Old English brǣdu ‘breadth’) [...]
1: English (Bedfordshire): topographic name for someone who lived ‘(by the) broad place’ typically a cultivated strip of land in an area of common land from Middle English brede (Old English brǣdu ‘breadth’) [...]