breckland

1) Uncertain meaning.

The Brecklands of Norfolk is a region characterised by ‘upland heaths and huge fields’, but the term has not been noted earlier than 1787. In Yorkshire we have: 1613 a high breckland lying between the landes of ... Thomas Hardistie ... and Seth Lasenby, Huntington. It is one of numerous minor place-names with ‘breck’ as an element, and the exact meaning depends on whether this word was Old English or Scandinavian origin.

places Huntington
dates 1613

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