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Survey of English Place-Names

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Bunker's Hill

Other OS name in the Parish of Nettleham

Etymology

1828 Bry , 1830 Gre , 1842 White ( a relatively common transferred name commemorating the 1775 battle of this name in the American War of Independence, Field 32–3 ; cf. also Nettleham Hill 1824 O ) .