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.

Horsley Hill

Field in the Parish of Mickleover

Historical Forms

1846 Survey

Horsley Hill 1576 DbAns

Etymology

Horsley Hill(Horsley Hill 1576, v. hors, lēah, hyll)

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Rough Heanor

Other OS name

Major Settlement

Mickleover