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.

Hill

Other OS name in the Parish of Affpuddle

Historical Forms

  • a hill or heathy ridge called Bladen, Blagden or Blackdown 1774 Hutch1

Etymology

( lost , SY 817927 ) , 1811 OS , probably identical with a hill or heathy ridge called Bladen , Blagden or Blackdown 1774 Hutch1 , v. blæc , dūn .