Haslingfield
Major Settlement in the Parish of Haslingfield
Historical Forms
- Haslingefeld(e) 1086 DB
- Haslingfeld(e), Haslingfeud 1275–9 RH 1293 Cl
- Haslyngfeld(e) 1332,1466 Pat 1503 ADiv
- Haslinkefeud c.1250 Trinity
- Heslingefelda 1086 ICC
- Heselingefeld' 1190 P
- Heselingafeld 1156–8 YCh 1337 Ch t.Ric1 1308
- Heselinghefeld 1157 YCh t.Ric1 Ch 1308
- Heselingfelt 1125–35 YCh 1337
- Heselingfeld(e), Heselyngfeld(e) t.Hy2 Dugdiii t.Hy8 Rental
- Heselyngefeld(e) 1299 QW
- Hesligfeld 1218 SR
- Hæselingefeud' 1236 Fees
- Hecelingfeld 1254 Ipm
- Eslyngfeld 1488 Ely
- Haselingfeld(e), Haselyngfeld(e) 1140–54 Ch 1366 ADv 1514
- Haselyngfel 1206 Cur 1281 Ipm
- Haselyngfeud 1272 Ass 1302 Ipm
- Haselyngford(e) 1272 Ass
- Haselyngfeld 1437 Pat
- Haselyngflet 1335 Cl
- Haselingefeld(e), Haselyngefeld(e) 1190 P 1558 ADv
- Haselyngefilde 1565 ib
- Naselingfeude 1212 RBE
- Hasselingfeld 1268 Ass
- Hasselyngfeld 1338 Pat
- Haslefeld 1354 StCatharine's
- Haselfeld 1365 FF
- Haislingfild 1647 PRi
Etymology
Ekwall (DEPN) has suggested that this is probably “the open country of the Hæselingas ” the dwellers at a lost Haseley . Such assumption of one lost place to explain another is dangerous and it is more probable that Hæselingas is to be interpreted 'people of Hæsel (a ),' a personal name corresponding to OGer Hasili (a derivative of Hasu ) (FörstemannPN 787). This is more probable than any association with a lost OE hæseling , 'hazel-thicket' (cf. Hazeldean PN Sx 263, Heslington PN ERY 273–4), as persistent medial e in the early forms makes it clear that this name goes back to OE Hæselingafeld rather than Hæselingfeld . For Naselingfeude cf. Nelmes (PN Ess 114) and v. æt .