Sugarloaf Hill Folkestone Kent

[sweetie67693]

Can anyone tell me any history about Sugarloaf Hill in Folkestone Kent . Also why is it called Sugarloaf Hill

[X111]

There are a group of hills which together are known as Sugar Loaf Hills. There is a picture at this link

http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Libr/VisRec/F/FOL/13.htm

and from it is easy to see why they are called sugar loaf. If they are other than natural hills, how they came to be there is unknown to me.

[Pinotage]

I think its because it looks like an old fashioned bread made in a conical shape called - you've guess it - a Sugar Loaf.

[trilobite]

Sorry, Pinotage. A sugarloaf was a solid block of sugar.

Before (the now familiar) free-flowing granulated sugar was available, sugar was delivered to grocers as a solid, crystalline block set into a conical shape and wrapped in blue paper. People would buy a 'sugar loaf' and cut pieces off with 'sugar nippers' to be ground or dissolved in water as required.

Those who could not afford a whole loaf would buy a piece that the grocer cut off a loaf using a small guillotine-like contraption.

Thus, a distinctly conical hill may be called 'sugarloaf' after this grocery item. There is a 'Sugarloaf Mountain' in the Black Mountains near Abergavenny, Wales (See Link) 

http://www.londonancestor.com/misc/misc-wales.htm  

and, of course, the famous one overlooking Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.