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.

Gt Sandhill & Lt Sandhill

Field in the Parish of Fifehead Neville

Historical Forms

  • 1842 TA

Etymology

Gt Sandhill & LtSandhill(cf. langsandun(e), Sc(h)ort(e)sandun(e), Sc(h)ort(e)sandon' 13, Sandon(e) 1288, v. lang1,sc(e)ort, sand, dūn)