Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Arwe 1240–9 Chest 1307 Eyre 1497 ChRR

• Arwe in Wyrehale 1420 Plea

• Haree 1278 ChFor

• Haregh 1305 Pat 1344

• Harugh l13 AD

• Harghee l13 Tab

• Harettee l13 Tab

• Harough l13 Sheaf 18

• Argh' 1296 Court

• Argh' in Wyrhale 1312 InqAqd

• Arghe 1307,1347 Eyre

• Arhe 1347 ChFor

• Areghe in Wirhale, Areghe in Wyrhale 1311 Fine

• Arwey 1347 ChFor

• Erwe 1348 Indict 1433 ChRR

• Arewe 1351 MinAcct

• Arewe in Wirhale 1351 Chamb

• Arowe 1397 ChRR 1400 Mainw 1428 Orm2

• Arrowe 15 ib

• Arowe 1499 Plea

• Harrow 1727 Sheaf

Etymology

'At the shieling', from ON  erg, or in this case probably directly from MIr  airge. In this township appear the f.ns. Bennetts Arrowe , Bithels Arrowe , Broad Arrowe , Browns Arrowe , Gills Arrowe , Harrisons Arrowe , Linacres Arrowe , Smiths Arrowe , Whartons Arrowe , Widness Arrowe , and Youds Arrowe 1846TA , cf. Ball 's Arrow , Bennet 's Arrow , Broad Arrow , Leene 's Arrow , Old Arrow , Walls Arrow , Young 's Arrow , and Samuel Yonges Arrow 1688 Sheaf3 46 (9386). In these, Arrowe means 'a part, an allotment, of the township of Arrowe', rather than 'shieling, erg '. Arrowe was enclosed c.1574, cf. Sheaf3 22 (5232) and Arrowe Park infra , and these are the apportionments of the enclosure. The el. erg may also appear in Ashton Brook 114, Ark Wood 3245, Bickerton Fm and Harrow Flan 4, 3supra . Orm2 ii 527 notes a church at Arrowe in the fifteenth century, a chapel of ease to Woodchurch, but there is no trace of it.