The story
- Old English · derived from*Banna“name of a 6th-century Saxon chieftain said to have built a stockade in that place”
- Old English · inherited fromBannanburg
- English todayBanbury
From Old English Bannanburg, from Old English *Banna (“name of a 6th-century Saxon chieftain said to have built a stockade in that place”) or bana, bona (“a byname meaning ‘felon, murderer’”) (see bane) + burgh (“borough; settlement; town”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.