Burg-stal

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - burg-stal

According to the Old English Dictionary:

-stól, es;

burg-stal
m. [burg = beorg, beorh a hill, stal a place, seat, dwelling] A hill-seat, dwelling on a hill; sedes super collem vel clivum. Cot. 209. The name of places built on a hill, as Burstall in Suffolk, Borstall in Kent and Oxfordshire, etc. burg-stal
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