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.

Short Cake Hill

Other OS name in the Parish of Hart

Etymology

, cf. Short Cake Field 1838TA , “ an allusion either to the shape or to the consistency of the soil of the field ” , Field 202 .