English: habitational name from any of various places called
Brough, of which there are several in Yorkshire and Derbyshire as well
as elsewhere. The place name is from Old English burh
‘fortress’ and in most cases these are the sites of Roman
fortifications. The pronunciation is usually ‘bruff’.Possibly
an altered spelling of German Brauch.
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