English Explanatory Dictionary

Bracknell

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A town and civil parish with a town council in Bracknell Forest district, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU8669).
  2. A local government district in Berkshire formed in 1974 and renamed Bracknell Forest in May 1988.
  3. A town in Meander Valley council area and the Northern Midlands council area, northern Tasmania, Australia.

Word forms

Bracknell

Etymology

First recorded in a Winkfield Boundary Charter of AD 942 as Braccan heal, perhaps meaning "nook of land belonging to a man called Bracca".

Derived words

Bracknell Forest
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