Daventry, Northamptonshire please!!
There is another Fox Hill in west Northamptonshire on the gated road between
Long Buckby and West Haddon. The OS map clearly shows this as Foxhill.
Regards
Dave Hayward
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From: "Carole Hough" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 9:19 AM
Subject: Re: [EPNL] foxhyll / Fox Hill
It is not uncommon for minor place-names to derive from boundary markers, so
there is no discrepancy between the TOE entry and the existence of Fox Hill.
Carole
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From: Anthony Appleyard <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:11:20 +0000
Subject: [EPNL] foxhyll / Fox Hill
http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=get&type=charter&id=1565 is an
Anglo-Saxon charter delimiting land around Badby a little south of Daventry
in Warwickshire. It includes "Of ðam wylle on foxhylle norðweard on ðone
ealdan heortwæg on ðone wylle", and
http://books.google.com/books?id=CqXCPtttljYC&pg=PA5&lpg=PA5&dq=foxhyll&source=web&ots=dQCdDC7lxo&sig=Gs7ZTMJmwHN_0sOPAcUXbZneEbU#PPA5,M1
"A Thesaurus of Old English, By Jane Roberts, Christian Kay, Lynne Grundy"
(page 5, line starting "Other kinds of hill") treats it as a "a fox hill", a
generic noun for a sort of hill. But in the right area is a small hill named
Fox Hill: when I was a small boy I saw it many times cycling with my father,
and on an inch-a-mile Ordnance Survey map.
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