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.

Cornhill

Other OS name in the Parish of Yarcombe

Historical Forms

  • Cornehyll t.Hy6 Ct

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is Cornehyll t. Hy 6Ct . Cf. Cornepyke t. Hy 8Ct , also in the parish . See Cornwood and Peek supra 268, 152 .