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.

Heswall Hill

Other OS name in the Parish of Heswall

Historical Forms

  • Heswall on the Hill 1954 Sheaf

Etymology

, 1831Bry , Heswall on the Hill 1954 Sheaf , v. hyll , cf. Village Rd infra . A local name for Heswall Hill was Telegraph Hill , cf. Telegraph Rdinfra . Cf. also the p.n. Pensby 271supra .