Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Hedebi 1086 DB

• Heidebi c1128 ChronPetro 12

• Haidbi 1212 Fees

• Hetheby 1231 PetLN m14 CNat

• Heytheby 1246 Ipm 1271 FF 1297 PetWB 1294 Ass 1307 FF

• Hayetheby 1272 FF

• Haytheby 1304 Ipm 1316,1322(m14) CNat 1327 SR 1329 Ass 1427 FF

• Haitheby 1322 1333 CNat m14

• Haythby 1577 Terrier

• Hatheby 1289 Ass 1290 Abbr 1397 Shef 1403 Inqaqd 1474 FF 1504–15 ECP

• Hathby 1538,1664 Terrier

• Hathby alias Hareby 1671,1675 Elwes 1697 Terrier

• Hathbye 1690,1786 ib

• Heathby 1697 ib

• Hareby Field 1730 Terrier

• Hareby Fields 1864 ib

• Hareby leys 1805–16 MiscDon

• Great Hareby, Little Hareby 1838 TA

• Hareby 1841 TA 1867 Terrier

• Hareby Field 1822 ib

• Hareby Leys 1788 Shef 1838 TA

• Hairby Fields, Hairby Leys 1806 EnclA

• Hairby Field 1822 Terrier

• Hairby Fields 1867 ib

Etymology

The farmstead, village on the heath, on the uncultivated land', v. heiðr , bȳ . This is a depopulated village, represented in the 19th century by a series of some twenty-one contiguous fields south-west of Coleby and north of the parish boundary between West Halton and Burton upon Stather. There is a further field called Hareby just to the east of Fir Bed Plantation recorded in the TA for Alkborough. Dr Insley points out that Hairby is identical in origin with the name of the Viking Age emporium of Hedeby on the Schlei, for which v. W. Laur, Historisches Ortsmanenlexikon von Schleswig -Holstein , 2nd ed., Neumunster, 1992, 316.