Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Herdwich c.1150 FPD

• herdwich c.1200 Spec

• Baronia de Herdewich 1197 Pipe

• Herdewich 1197 ib

• Herdewyk 1183 BB c.1320 Elemos after1267 Finc late13th Spec 1296 IPM 1343,1356(p) Hatf 1382

• Herdewyk' 1183 BB c.1382 RPD 1314

• herdewic' c.1250 Ct

• Herdewik 1291 GD 1363 GT

• Herdewyke 1294(p),c.1300(p) GD

• Herdewike late13th GD 1363 GT 1449 IPM

• herdewik iuxta Seggefeld 1341 Ct

• Herdewyke iuxta Segefeeld 1432 Elemos

• herwyk c.1250 Ct

• hdwik c.1250 Ct

• herduic c.1260 ib

• herdwiht c.1260 Elemos

• Herdwyk c.1324 GD 1396etfreqto1500×1 IPM c.1500 Elemos

• Herdwyk nigh Segefeld 1403 NbDu

• Herdwyk next Segfeld 1408 IPM

• Herdwicke 1561 ib

• Hardwyk 1400 IPM

• Hardwyk next Segfeld 1416 ib

• Hardwike 1498–9 ib

• hardwicke 1555 Salvin

• Hardwicke 1620 IPM

• the manor or lordship of Harwicke 1791 Bran

• Hardwick 1675 Ogilby 1726 HC/CB70Series2 1743×4 GD

Etymology

'The herd farm', sc. of Sedgefield, OE  heorde-wīc. The 'herd farm' was probably that part of the manor devoted to livestock farming rather than arable farming, denoting the stables and cattlesheds rather than the barns and storehouses (often called the bere -wīc ).