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Survey of English Place-Names

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Foul Hill

Other OS name in the Parish of Cann

Historical Forms

  • Fowelhill 1562 Weld1
  • Fowlehill 1565 1668 Waller

Etymology

, Fowelhill 1562Weld 1, Fowlehill 1565 ib, 1668Waller , v. fugol ' bird ' , hyll ; the first el . is perhaps less likely to be a surname , but cf. tenement '…quod Ricardus Fowell ' iam tenet 1473Sher . This name has now been altered to Foyle Hill on recent street plans of Shaftesbury .