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.

Gipsy Hill

Early-attested site in the Parish of Lambeth

Etymology

Gipsy Hill takes its name from the gipsies who frequented it and the adjacent Norwood in the 18th and early 19th centuries (VCH iv, 216).

Places in the same Parish