Hackney
Early-attested site in the Parish of Kingsteignton
Historical Forms
- piscar' in aqua de Teyng vocat' Haking 1422 IpmR
Etymology
Haking , found also in Hackney infra 506 and in le Hakyng t. Hy 8MinAcct (South Pool), is clearly the obsolete word haking found in Carew's Survey of Cornwall 30 a, where it is used of a kind of fish-net employed in tidal waters. Ekwall (PN La 71) suggests that it is a derivative of OE haca , 'bolt.' The derivation of Hackney from Haking is obscure.