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.

May Hill

Other OS name in the Parish of Longhope

Etymology

, 1703Will , the later name of the prominent hill at Yartleton (supra ) ; Rudder533 says the name refers to a folk custom of adjacent parishes contending for possession of the hill on May day .