Breedon on the Hill

English

Etymology

See Breedon.

Proper noun

Breedon on the Hill

1. A village and civil parish in North West Leicestershire district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK4022).
   • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 87, Breedon on the Hill:

     The great age of the village is apparent even in the tautology of its name. Bre means 'hill' in the Celtic tongue of the pre-Roman Britons, dun means the same thing in Anglo-Saxon, Hill hill-on-the-Hill, in fact.

References

• Parish map