Baumber

Baumber, Lincolnshire

Baumber, in the Gartree Wapentake of Lincolnshire, likely comes from the Old English male personal name Badda and the Old English element burh ‘a fortified place’.

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Collection

Viking Names

Keywords

Lincolnshire, place-name

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Acknowledgements

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References

Kenneth Cameron, A Dictionary of Lincolnshire Place-Names. The English Place-Name Society (1998), p. 11.