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Survey of English Place-Names

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Mickle How Hill

Other OS name in the Parish of Kirmington

Historical Forms

  • Micklow Hill 1832 Yarb

Etymology

( lost , it was on the site of the present airport ) , 1824 O , Micklow Hill 1832Yarb . The forms are late , but it may be tentatively suggested that it is ' the big (burial) mound orhill ' , v. micel , mikill , haugr .