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Survey of English Place-Names

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Church Hill

Other OS name in the Parish of East Dean

Historical Forms

  • Churchill 1692 Comm

Etymology

, Churchill 1692Comm , as it is not near a church or known to have been a church possession , this must be the Brit hill - name crūc 1 ' hill, barrow ' ( as in Churchdown ii, 119supra ) with hyll added as in many other occur - rences of the el .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement