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.

Greenhill

Early-attested site in the Parish of Alveston

Historical Forms

to grenhylle 955–9 BCS936 12th

Etymology

Greenhill, 1830 M, to grenhylle 955–9 (12th) BCS 936. v. grēne 1 , hyll .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement

Alveston