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.

Harlow Half-Hundred

Hundred in the County of Essex

Historical Forms

  • Herlaua 1086 DB 1178–90 P
  • Herlaue 1219 Fees
  • Herlawe 1274 RH 1303 FA
  • Herloue 1238 SR
  • Herle 1227 Fees
  • Herleg' 1252 Cl
  • Harlowe 1484 Pat

Etymology

v. Harlow infra 36. Variously called a hundred and a half- hundred. The meeting-place of the hundred was probably at Mulberry Green infra 37.