Bere Ferrers

A Dictionary of British Place-Names | 2003 | Copyright

Bere Ferrers Devon. Birlanda [sic] 1086 (DB), Ber 1242, Byr Ferrers 1306. ‘Woodland pasture’, or ‘wood, grove’, OE bǣr or bearu (in the first spelling with land ‘estate’). Manorial affix from the de Ferers family, here in the 13th cent.

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