# Bracknell

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #57,908

## Definitions
1. A town and civil parish with a town council in Bracknell Forest district, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU8669).
2. A local government district in Berkshire formed in 1974 and renamed Bracknell Forest in May 1988.
3. A town in Meander Valley council area and the Northern Midlands council area, northern Tasmania, Australia.

## Etymology
First recorded in a Winkfield Boundary Charter of AD 942 as Braccan heal, perhaps meaning "nook of land belonging to a man called Bracca".

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/bracknell