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.

Six Mile Bottom

Other OS name in the Parish of Little Wilbraham

Historical Forms

  • (the) Six Mile Bottom 1801 EnclA c.1825 O.S.

Etymology

is (the ) Six Mile Bottom 1801EnclA , c. 1825 O.S. It is a hamlet in a hollow six miles from Newmarket and was possibly at one time named Camdene , v. Camgate Way supra 21 .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site