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.

Nill Fm

Other OS name in the Parish of Hook Norton

Etymology

. Cf. Nill 1706, 18 Dickins . The farm appears from the O.S . map to be on a hill , and the name may be OE  *cnyll , ' hill ' : v. PN Sx 169 , or from ME  atten hille , ' at thehill . '