Whitesheet Hill
Other OS name in the Parish of Toller Fratrum
Historical Forms
- White Sheet (hill called White Sheet) 1774 Hutch1 1841 TA
- White Sheet Hill 1811 OS
Etymology
, White Sheet (hill called White Sheet )1774 Hutch1, 1841TA ,White Sheet Hill 1811 OS , cf. White Sheet Bottom 1841TA , probably from scyte ' (steep) slope or hill ' ( or the related *scēot3 ' steep slope ' ) , cf. the analogous White Sheet Hill in Holt par . 2 156 and another example in Beaminster par . infra ; the allusion is to soil colour , cf. the Limekiln marked 6 ″