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.

Butterdon Hill

Other OS name in the Parish of Moretonhampstead

Historical Forms

Boterdoune 1330 SR

Boterdon 1415 Ass

Etymology

is Boterdoune 1330SR (p), Boterdon 1415Ass . v. Buttercombe supra 40 .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site

Major Settlement

Moretonhampstead