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Survey of English Place-Names

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Fat Hill

Other OS name in the Parish of Bolton by Bowland

Historical Forms

  • le Fatehille 1368 Puds

Etymology

, 1593 PRBlt , le Fatehille 1368 Puds , ' rich fertile hill ' , from OE  fǣtt ' fat ' ( esp . of animals ) and hyll ; the allusion is doubtless to land producing fat animals .