 The town sits at the foot of a steeply rising outcrop of Exmoor known as North Hill , and the original name of the town was mynydd , which means mountain in Welsh . It has also been written as Mynheafdon ( 1046 ) , Maneheve ( 1086 ) , Menehewed ( 1225 ) and Menedun ( also 1225 ) , which contain elements of Welsh and Old English words for hill . 
