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.

Old Hill(lost)

Other OS name in the Parish of Coombe Keynes

Historical Forms

  • Oldhill 1638,1686 Weld1
  • Old Hill (Coppice) 1839 TA

Etymology

( lost ) , 1703Weld 1 , 1861 Hutch3 , Oldhill 1638, 1686Weld 1, Old Hill (Coppice )1839TA , v. ald , hyll ; Hutch3 1348 describes it as a farm ' half a mile N of Combe ' ( i.e. Coombe K . supra ) .