Nocketts Hill
Early-attested site in the Parish of Pewsham
Historical Forms
- Nocket Hill 1598 Depositions
Etymology
Nocketts Hill is Nocket Hill 1598Depositions . The name repeats itself in Nockatt Plantation infra 167, for which we have no early forms, and in an unidentified Nokete (1347DuLa ), Nocketts (1591 WM vi) in Oaksey. Probably it is unwise to speculate upon the name with so little early material, but if we do it may well be that Professor Ekwall is right in suggesting that Nokete is from at then okette and explaining okette as an ett -derivative from ac , 'oak,' denoting an oak plantation. Cf. ett infra 430 and la okette (PN Sr 359).