The story
- Old English · inherited fromscīr“bright, clear”
- English todaySherbourne
From Old English scīr (“bright, clear”), definite form scīra + burna (“stream”).
Words from the same roots
Old Englishscīr all →
SherwoodSherburneSherburnShirlandShereford
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.