English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

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Sugar Hill

Field in the Parish of Scraptoft

Historical Forms

  • 1781 Map 1830 Surv 1850 TA

Etymology

Sugar Hill 1781, 1830, 1850 (prob. a complimentary name for' sweet' land (v. sugere), but poss. a reduced * Sugar Loaf Hill, alluding to a hillock resembling a sugar loaf in shape)