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Excerpt from The History of Bruche Hall: Near Warrington, With Notices of the Bruche and Other Famileis Its Owners
Tms place, one of those already above referred to, and of which we propose to give a detailed account, is supposed to have owed its name to the way in which the name of the Birch tree was pronounced by the common people in olden times. This tree loves a heathy soil and within living memory it grew in large numbers in the hamlet of Bruche. Our Saxon ancestors found for their vills, hamlets, and places names of a very simple origin - a cliff, the stock of a tree, an abundance of sand, or a great growth of rushes gave name to Clifton, Stockton, Sankey and Risley. The names of places which have not a similar origin in this neighbourhood are rare: Bryn, Culcheth, Kenyon, Glaze brooke, Douglas, Bollin, Penketh, and Kinkenall, which in part or in whole have a British sound, being the only exceptions that occur to the writer.
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