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Sweet Hill(lost)

Other OS name in the Parish of Coombe Keynes

Historical Forms

  • Sweetehills 1638,e18 Weld1
  • close called Sweethills 1686 1839 TA

Etymology

( lost ) , 1861 Hutch3 , Sweetehills 1638, e18Weld 1,close called Sweethills 1686ib , 1839TA , ' pleasant hill(s) ' , v. swēte , hyll ; Hutch3 1348 describes it as a farm ' half a mile N of Combe ' ( i.e. Coombe K . supra ) .