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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.

Hospitalhill (Wood)

Other OS name in the Parish of Ilford

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) . Cf. le Hospital 1397 IpmR , le Spitell Grove 1462 Pat , Spittle Wood c. 1840 TA . From the leper - hospital founded by the Abbess of Barking . Cf. Little Lepers infra 606 .