Hartpury
Major Settlement in the Parish of Hartpury
Historical Forms
- Hardepiry(e), Hardepyry(e), Hardepyri(e), Hardepiria 12,13 Glouc 1167 P 1236 FF 1263 GlR 1380 et freq
- Hardepyriye 1248 Ass
- Herdepyrie 1248 ib
- Hardpirie 1318 Berk
- Hardepirer' 1150–60 Eyns 1200 Glouc
- Hardeper(i)er 1154–89 Glouc 1195 P 1245 GlR
- Hardepir(e), Hardepyr' 12 Glouc 1248 Ass 1287 QW 1291 Tax
- Hardeper' 1281 FF
- Hardepyrge 1292 GlR
- Hard(e)purye 1316 FA 1387 Works
- Hardeperye 1334,1358 GlR
- Hartpirie 1324 Misc
- Hartpury 1535 VE 1683 PR
Etymology
'The hard pear-tree' (that is, one with hard fruit like perry-pears), v. heard , pirige . The forms with pirer , etc. have the substitution of OFr perier , and the later form in Hart - has assimilation of -d - to -t - because of the following voiceless -p - (Phonol. § 44d ).
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Other OS name
- Buttersend
- Careless Fm
- Carter's Grove
- Catgrove Wood
- Church Length Wood
- Colliers Brook
- Coopey's Fm
- Corse End
- Darley Wood
- The Dennie
- Grove Fm
- Hartpury Court & Hartpury Mill
- The Hill
- Laughton's Fm
- Limbury Hill
- Moor End
- Murrell's End
- Sloper's Fm
- Abbot's Place
- Rook Wood
- Prestberries Fm
- Tweenhills Fm
- Blackwells End Green
- Rudgeley Wood