Anfield Area

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Something else to add here: Re: Origins of Breck Road.

I think therefore that Breck Road is actually a Viking name meaning Sloping or Hilly Road.

Let's add this to other names with Breck in them.

Breckfield Road becomes - Sloping Field Road (very similar in meaning to Hangfield (Anfield) Road)

Walton Breck Road becomes Walton Hill Road - or 'the road to the hill of the settlement of the Welshmen'.

Lower Breck Road - Lower Hill/Slope Road

All this adds to a rather interesting question: does Anfield have its origins as a Viking area?

There is hardly enough evidence to say conclusively either way but it is certainly something worth bearing in mind.

For more information about Scandinavian place names in the Merseyside area, read Viking Mersey by Stephen Harding

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/-sczsteve/