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Survey of English Place-Names

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Heaves

Other OS name in the Parish of Heversham

Historical Forms

  • (the) Heaves 1737 WilsonL 1815 EnclA

Etymology

, (the ) Heaves 1737 WilsonL, 1815EnclA ; there was here an ancient enclosure , possibly ' where sheep wereexamined or regularly pastured ' ( cf. CW viii, 355, xii, 397 ff ) ; the name is from e. ModE  hefe , NCy dial . heaf ' a pasture regularly usedby a flock of sheep ' ( cf. NED s.v . ) .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site