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.

Big Hill

Early-attested site in the Parish of Badby

Etymology

Big Hill is probably the wearge dun of BCS 792 (v. supra 10 n.).It must have been called later Big Hill in distinction from a Little Hill mentioned in a Badby Terrier of c. 1650, and also by Bridges.

Places in the same Parish

Major Settlement