Buttermilk Hill
hill or mountain · Staffordshire
Old EnglishSurmised
Probable2 sources · name elements
This name likely refers to a hill associated with buttermilk. Buttermilk could be a descriptive term for the colour or quality of the hill or a nearby water source, or it could relate to a place where buttermilk was produced or consumed.
Word origins
- Buttermilk
- Old EnglishAttestedbuttermilk(from butere "butter", meolc "milk")
- Hill
- Old EnglishAttestedhill(from hyll "hill")