Birmingham Bull Ring

[brumtb]

Thanks @CKPR and @MrWolf, very tempting, a whole new area to explore especially as I'm discovering family connections.

A bit off piste, but I'd quite like to know how Carlisle's Brunton Park got it's name as that's my surname.

Tony 

[CKPR]

9 hours ago, brumtb said:

A bit off piste, but I'd quite like to know how Carlisle's Brunton Park got it's name as that's my surname.

Tony 

Looks like it is a Scottish Borders and Northumberland placename meaning a farmstead or enclosure by a stream (the maiden name of my friends, who is Welsh on her dad's side, was Bunton, which is probably the same derivation ?)

[brumtb]

13 hours ago, CKPR said:

Looks like it is a Scottish Borders and Northumberland placename meaning a farmstead or enclosure by a stream (the maiden name of my friends, who is Welsh on her dad's side, was Bunton, which is probably the same derivation ?)

Thanks, yes there are many Bruntons in the scottish border country and I visited a small hamlet called Brunton in Northumberland last autumn. It doesn't seem quite so common in Cumbria though although my great grandfather lived in Carlisle and died there in 1898. Its all fascinating.

Tony