Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Hebeden(e) 1086 DB 13 YDi 1200–10 Furn

• Hebbeden(e) 12 Font 1120 Whit c.1150 Yorke l.12 Puds 1214–33 YChvii 1325 Font

• Hebbeduna 1140–7 YCh534

• Hebden 1198 Fount 1285 KI 1303 KF 1400 YI 1628 PRLnt

• Hebden in Craven 1500 Ipm 1639 WillY

• Hebdeyn 1379 PT

Etymology

This is possibly 'rose-hip valley', as Ekwall suggests, or 'bramble valley', v. hēope , hēopa , denu , with early voicing of -p - to -b - before -d - as in some of the very early spellings of Skibeden 73supra and the later ones of Hebden Bridge iii, 188supra .