 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 <unk> , which means mountain in Welsh . It has also been written as <unk> ( 1046 ) , <unk> ( 1086 ) , <unk> ( 1225 ) and <unk> ( also 1225 ) , which contain elements of Welsh and Old English words for hill . 
