Breedon on the Hill

proper noun

A village and civil parish in North West Leicestershire district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK4022).

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. A village and civil parish in North West Leicestershire district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK4022).

    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.

    1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 87, Breedon on the Hill

Origin

See Breedon.

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APA

Breedon on the Hill. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Breedon%20on%20the%20Hill

MLA

“Breedon on the Hill.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Breedon%20on%20the%20Hill. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Breedon on the Hill,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Breedon%20on%20the%20Hill.

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