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Survey of English Place-Names

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Moathill

Other OS name in the Parish of Cawston

Historical Forms

  • Moat Hill Plantation 1843 TA

Etymology

, Moat Hill Plantation 1843TA ; cf. apud Motes 1354Ct ( v. OE  mōt or ON  mót ' meeting ' and the notes about the possible meeting - places of the hundred court under the article on the hundred - name supra ) .