English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

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Pile Hill

Other OS name in the Parish of Greenham

Historical Forms

  • Pilhill, Pilhill Heth 1547 LRMB

Etymology

, 1761 Rocque , Pilhill , Pilhill Heth 1547LRMB . The hill is the one climbed by the road to Greenham from the lower ground of Stroud Green . There may have been stakes ( v. pīl ) marking the route through the marshy ground .