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.

Bleak Hill

Field in the Parish of Scraptoft

Historical Forms

  • 1850 TA
  • Bleakhill 1745 Terrier

Etymology

Bleak Hill, 1850 (Bleakhill 1745, v. bleikr)