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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.

Hen Gill

Other OS name in the Parish of Gisburn

Historical Forms

  • Heugill (sic for Hengill) 1641 ib

Etymology

, 1706PRGis , Heugill (sic for Hengill )1641 ib , ' hen ravine ' , v. henn , gil .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site