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