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Penhill

Penhill proper noun: a hill in the Yorkshire Dales, Richmondshire district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0586).

Proper noun

Penhill

  1. A hill in the Yorkshire Dales, Richmondshire district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0586).
  2. A northern suburb of Swindon, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU1588).

Origin of Penhill

From Cumbric/Proto-Brythonic *penn (“summit, top”) + Old English hyll (“hill”).

Questions about Penhill

What does Penhill mean?
Penhill means a hill in the Yorkshire Dales, Richmondshire district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0586).
What part of speech is Penhill?
Penhill is a proper noun.

Words near Penhill in the dictionary

  1. pengő
  2. pengős
  3. Penha
  4. Penhallurick
  5. Penhelig
  6. Penhill
  7. penhold
  8. penholder
  9. penholders
  10. penholds
  11. penhouse

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Penhill (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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