Harrow Hill
Early-attested site in the Parish of Angmering
Historical Forms
- Haregedon 1203 FF
Etymology
Harrow Hill. There can be little doubt that this hill, with its ancient camp, was once marked by a heathen hearg or place of worship, but no early form of the name has been found.Harrow Hill itself must have been very near the Stonherie , evidently a stone hearg, which was somewhere on the Clapham- Findon border (1256, c. 1330 Sele 29, 187). There was clearly a Harrow Down somewhere else in the county, for we get a Haregedon in 1203 (FF), which unfortunately cannot be localised, and Harewedon is found in pers. names in the parishes of Stedham and Ringmer in 1332 (SR).