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.

Knave Hill

Other OS name in the Parish of Stonton Wyville

Historical Forms

  • The Neville 1967 Surv

Etymology

( local ) , The Neville 1967Surv , cf. Navill close 1601Terrier , Knavill closse , Knavehill closse 1625 , v. cnafa , hyll ; the site of an early Anglo - Saxon settlement .

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