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- General Links for this Work
- Preface to the Second Edition
- London Place‐Names and their Meanings
- Scope and Arrangement of the Dictionary
- The Chronology and Languages of London Place‐Names
- Pre-Celtic Names
- Celtic Names
- Roman Londinium
- The Anglo-Saxon Period
- The Scandinavian Influence
- The Norman French Influence
- The Middle English Period
- The Early Modern Period
- Modern and Recent Names
- Some Different Place-Name Types and Structures
- Compound and Simplex Names
- Names with Affixes
- Reduction and Other Sound Changes
- Some Archaic Grammatical Features
- Old English Personal Names: ‘a man called Hilda’
- Folk Etymology
- Back-Formation
- Names Transferred from Foreign Places
- Irony, Whimsy, and Some Unusual Formations
- The Wider Significance of London Place‐Names
- London Town: The City's Names
- London Country: Place‐Names and the Landscape
- Woodland and Heath
- Hills and Valleys
- Rivers, Springs, Pools, and Marshland
- Land Use and Agriculture
- Natural History
- Communications and Trade
- Local Industries and Occupations
- Place‐Names with Religious Associations
- Place‐Names and Social History
- Place‐Names and the Language
- Postscript: Some Associations, Uses, and Applications of London Place‐Names
- The Greater London Boroughs
- Maps
- Glossary of the Elements Found in London Place-Names
- Select Bibliography
Harefield
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- A Dictionary of London Place-Names
- Author(s):
A. D. Mills
Harefield
Hillingdon. Herefelle (sic) 1086 (Domesday Book), Herrefeld 1115, Herefeld 1206, Harefeld 1223, probably ‘open land used by an army’, from Old English here and feld. The exact significance of the name is not clear, but it may allude to an encampment by a Viking army during the Danish invasions of the 10th and early 11th centuries. Harefield Moor is Herfeld Moor 1394, from Old English mōr ‘marshy ground’; this is low-lying land (now mainly sand and gravel pits) by the River Colne and gives name to Moorhall Cottages. Nearby South Harefield is a 20th-century development.
- Publishing Information
- General Links for this Work
- Preface to the Second Edition
- London Place‐Names and their Meanings
- Scope and Arrangement of the Dictionary
- The Chronology and Languages of London Place‐Names
- Pre-Celtic Names
- Celtic Names
- Roman Londinium
- The Anglo-Saxon Period
- The Scandinavian Influence
- The Norman French Influence
- The Middle English Period
- The Early Modern Period
- Modern and Recent Names
- Some Different Place-Name Types and Structures
- Compound and Simplex Names
- Names with Affixes
- Reduction and Other Sound Changes
- Some Archaic Grammatical Features
- Old English Personal Names: ‘a man called Hilda’
- Folk Etymology
- Back-Formation
- Names Transferred from Foreign Places
- Irony, Whimsy, and Some Unusual Formations
- The Wider Significance of London Place‐Names
- London Town: The City's Names
- London Country: Place‐Names and the Landscape
- Woodland and Heath
- Hills and Valleys
- Rivers, Springs, Pools, and Marshland
- Land Use and Agriculture
- Natural History
- Communications and Trade
- Local Industries and Occupations
- Place‐Names with Religious Associations
- Place‐Names and Social History
- Place‐Names and the Language
- Postscript: Some Associations, Uses, and Applications of London Place‐Names
- The Greater London Boroughs
- Maps
- Glossary of the Elements Found in London Place-Names
- Select Bibliography
