English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Henley

Early-attested site in the Parish of Fernhurst

Etymology

This may be a corruption of the name that appears in Richard de Hundligh in Easebourne in 1296 (SR) and as Hounley in 1640 (SRS 14, 155), when the name would mean 'hound clearing,' v. hund , leah . It is difficult to believe that this rather important place is unrecorded.

Places in the same Parish