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Survey of English Place-Names

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Sneachill

Early-attested site in the Parish of Spetchley

Historical Forms

  • fnætes-wyllan (sic) 977 KCD612 11th

Etymology

The f here is almost certainly an error for s . It may be noted, in the absence of any intermediate forms for the identification of this name, that ts would very probably appear later as ch and that in the unstressed syllable wyll might easily be reduced to ill . In favour of the identification is the fact that snæteswyllan is on the bounds of Wolverton and that Sneachill is near the Spetchley-Wolverton border. The first element is the pers. name found in Snettisham (Nf), DBSnet (t )esham . This is unknown elsewhere in England, but may be allied to the pers. names Snato , Snazi given by Förstemann (PN 1350).

Places in the same Parish

Major Settlement