English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Boddington Hill

Early-attested site in the Parish of Halton

Etymology

Lipscomb says (ii. 481) that this hill is vulgarly called Bottendown Hill. If so it may really be OE  Bōtandūn , 'Bota's hill.'

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Major Settlement