Agden (Green)
Early-attested site in the Parish of Great Staughton
Historical Forms
- Accadena 1124–8 ScottishHist.Reviewxiv.371 14th
- boscus de Hakeden 1227 Ass
- Akeden 1241 FF 1248 For 1327 SR
- Agden Grene 1553 FF
Etymology
The first form makes derivation from an OE āc -denu (v. ac , denu ) highly improbable and suggests that the first element was the ancient OE pers. name Acca . In the 12th cent. an Anglo-Scandinavian pers. name Acca (or Akke ) existed as a short form of the common ON Ásketill . It is however improbable that this name would appear in combination with the OE denu in a Huntingdonshire p.n.