The story
Taken from the setting of Walter Scott's The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805), based on the real Branxholme Castle in the Scottish Borders.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Branksome
Today it means: A suburb of Poole in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole district, Dorset, England (OS grid ref SZ0592). Full definition →