Bloodmoor Hill
hill or mountain · Suffolk
Old EnglishSurmised
Probable2 sources · name elements
Bloodmoor Hill suggests a moorland area associated with bloodshed or a place where blood was spilled. The 'moor' element refers to open, uncultivated land, and 'hill' denotes its topography.
Word origins
- Bloodmoor
- Old EnglishAttestedbloody moor(from blod "blood", mōr "moor, heath")
- Hill
- Old EnglishAttestedhill(from hyll "hill")