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.

Curves Hill

Early-attested site in the Parish of Lydney

Historical Forms

  • grove called the Kyrves 1559,1565 GR421
  • Carves Hill 1830 M

Etymology

Curves Hill, grove called the Kyrves 1559, 1565GR 421, Carves Hill 1830 M. This is probably from OE  cyrf 'cutting, cut', and since the name appears to have denoted a wood it may have been used in some such sense as 'the cutting down of trees'; the place is on the edge of the forest-land.

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement