- (particularly in the East
Anglian region of
England and Scotland) "burgh".
Byrig was the
plural form of burh and burg: "forts", "fortifications". It was...
-
burgum ge
buton burgum. &
gewitnes sy
geset to ælcere
byrig & to æl**** hundrode. To ælcere
byrig ****VI syn
gecorone to gewitnesse; to
smalum burgum & to...
- At the
Battle of
Beran Byrig or
Beranburh the West
Saxons are said to have
defeated the
Britons at
Barbury Castle hillfort near
Swindon in or
around 556...
-
brings reinforcements.
Ragnall captures the
partially built burh of Eads
Byrig and
demands they cede
Ceaster to him, but
Uhtred knows Ceaster's fortifications...
-
comes from the Old
English word for a
fortified place, burh,
whose dative,
byrig,
means "by the fort", or "by the manor". Much of the park is
covered by...
- word burh (whose
dative singular and nominative/accusative
plural form
byrig sometimes underlies modern place-names, and
which had
dialectal variants...
- and
management of the scrub. The name
Cadbury is
derived from "Cada's
byrig";
byrig is the Anglo-Saxon word
meaning "fort" or "town",
which is frequently...
- site of
Liddington Castle on the hill
above Badbury (Old English:
Baddan byrig) in
Wiltshire west of Swindon. This site, an Iron Age hill fort with signs...
- the
indigenous Brittonic name with the Old
English suffixes -burh and -
byrig,
denoting fortresses or
their adjacent settlements.) The
longer name was...
- It was
first recorded in the
Cartularium Saxoni**** in 1010 as
Speoles byrig. In 1086 the
Domesday Book
recorded the
village as Spelesberie. Spelsbury...
