High Willhays of the highest hill on nearby Bodmin Moor, and suggested that a watch for beacon fires used to be kept here. He also posited a possible link to the word "gwili" meaning winding or tortuous, but said it was unlikely this was where it originated from. "The Place-Names of Devon" (1931) notes that the peak was named "Hight Wyll" in a document of 1532, and was known in 1827 as "High Willows". The authors state that the name may simply be a compound of "high" and "well" (meaning "spring"), though they admit that the additional syllable at the end is
High Point High School High Point students came from Langley Park. In 1987 the largest English as a second language (ESOL) program in the school district was in High Point High; this program began in 1969, and the school in 1987 had the largest population of students originating from outside the United States of any PG County high school. the ESOL program includes ESOL 1-3, Advanced Critical Reading, AIM, Language of American History, Language of Math, and Language of Science classes. In 1987 it had classes in six foreign languages, and the school district was considering making High Point a magnet school for foreign