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.

Hornbeam Common

Other OS name in the Parish of Great Munden

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) . Cf. Hernebemfeld 1416Ct , Hornebemfild 1556AOMB . For the occurrence of hornbeam in this county cf. Salisbury in Journal of Ecology ( 1916 , p. 83 ff , 1918 , p. 14 ff . ) .