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.

Hollows

Early-attested site in the Parish of Warter

Historical Forms

  • Haymholou 13th Warter

Etymology

Hollows (6″) is Haymholou 13thWarter . 'Hollow (near the homestead),' v. heim , holh , and for the use of heim here cf. Dearsden supra 170.