English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Greenhill

Other OS name in the Parish of Highweek (with Newton Abbot)

Historical Forms

  • Grenewill 1356 Ass

Etymology

is Grenewill 1356Ass (p) . v. wielle . There is a spring here .