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.

Hungry Hall Cottages

Early-attested site in the Parish of Wyton

Etymology

cf. Hungerton Wytton 1270Ass

Was there a 'hunger-farm' in Wyton, so called from the poverty of the land, and if so may it not possibly have survived as Hungry Hall found in this name and in Hungry Hall, just over the border in Broughton parish?

Places in the same Parish

Major Settlement

Early-attested site