Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• all hallowes 1579 Terrier

• Alhallowes 1579,1601 ib

• Alhallows 17 ib

• Allhalowes 1700 ib

• holehalous (sic) 1709 ib

• Hall Hallows c.1725 ib

Etymology

Allhallows, 1697, 1724Terrier , 1729 Nichols, 1824 O, 1846, 1863 White, all hallowes 1579Terrier , Alhallowes 1579, 1601ib , Alhallows 17ib , Allhalowes 1700ib , holehalous (sic)1709ib , Hall Hallows c.1725ib ; this is a church dedication to All Saints (OE  hālga 'a saint'), cf. forms for All Saints, Lei 1 82. The name is attached to a moated site, half destroyed by a former railway line. White 1846 describes the remains as 'the foundations of an ancient building supposed to have been a religious house', while Nichols 1795 quotes from a note of 1725, 'In this parish was formerly a small house of nuns. The place where it stood is yet called All-hallows, but there are no remains of the fabrick.'No earlier references than the 1579 forms of the name have been found.The site remains unexcavated.