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.

Goosehill Green

Early-attested site in the Parish of Hanbury

Historical Forms

Goshull(e) 1255 For 1276 RH 1299 RBB 18th

Gosehill 1485 Nash 18th Wills 1592

Goosehill 1633 QSR

Etymology

Self-explanatory. Cf. gosa beorg (BCS 956).

Places in the same Parish

Major Settlement

Hanbury

Early-attested site