Burslem

A Dictionary of British Place-Names | 2003 | 322 words | Copyright

Burslem Stoke. Barcardeslim [sic] 1086 (DB), Borewardeslyme 1242. ‘Estate in Lyme belonging to the fort-keeper, or to a man called Burgweard’. OE burh-weard or pers. name with old district name Lyme, perhaps from Latin līmen ‘threshold, lintel’ (figuratively ‘escarpment’).

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