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Breedon on the Hill
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English
Etymology
See en Breedon.
Proper noun
Breedon on the hill
en village/and/cpar in dist/North West Leicestershire co/Leicestershire cc/England OS grid ref SK4022.
en 1980 AA Book of British Villages Drive Publications Ltd 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.
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Parish map