Crow Hill Plantation
Early-attested site in the Parish of Swaffham Bulbeck
Historical Forms
- le Croyell' 1573 Ct
- (the) Croyle 1637 BedL 1775 Map
Etymology
Crow Hill Plantation (6″). Near here and possibly identical in name with Crow Hill was a fen called le Croyell '1573Ct , (the ) Croyle 1637 BedLet freq to 1775Map . The topography is uncertain, but we probably have here OE *crēowel , 'fork,' found in Croughton (PN Nth 51) and Cryfield (PN Wa 181–2). For these we have forms Croyle -, Crouel -, Crowell -. The form Crow Hill would then have arisen through popular etymology.