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.

Hendon

Early-attested site in the Parish of Hellingly

Historical Forms

  • Henden(n)e 1327,1332 SR

Etymology

Hendon (lost) is Hendene DB and Henden (n )e 1327, 1332 SR (p) and Hendon in a Rental of 1745. Possibly 'at the high swine- pasture,' v. heah , denn .