English Explanatory Dictionary

Benefield

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A civil parish in North Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, England, which includes the villages of Upper and Lower Benefield.
  2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Word forms

Benefield Benefields Benfield

Etymology

Recorded as Beringafeld in the Cartularium Saxonicum, the placename derives from the Old English personal name Bera + -ing (“belonging to”) + feld (“field”). The -n- in the present name is most probably due to Anglo-Norman assimilation.

Derived words

Lower Benefield Upper Benefield
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