Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Haggethorn 968 RamsChron l13 P 1193,1194

• Hagetorne 1086 DB

• Hagetorn 1086 ib

• Hagethorn 1202 Ass 1203 P 1203 Cur

• Agetorne 1086 DB

• Hacatorn(a) c1115 LS

• Hacæthor (sic) c1150 Dane

• Haccatorn lHy2 ib

• Haccetorn 1202 Ass

• Hachetorna c1115 LS 1130 P 1175–81,lHy2 Dane

• Hachetorn 1194 CurP l12 RAiv l12,Hy2 Dane

• Hachethorna c1115 c1155 Gilb 1411

• Hacheþorn e13 HarlCh

• Hacchetorn 1185–87 Dane

• Haketorn(') 1156–85 Bard p1269 Semp c1160 Dane c1160 RotDom 1185 NCot Hy2 Dane e13 CurP lHy2 RAiv 1194 Cur l12,c1200 Pap 1200,1203 1255

• Hakethorn(') l12 Dane John HarlCh 1202 Ass 1208 FF 1208 Cur 1210 Ass c1220,c1230,1238 RAiv 1242–43 Fees

• Hakethorne 1553 Pat

• Hacthorna l12 Dane

• Hacthorn lHy2 1242–43 Fees 1254 ValNor 1444 LCStatutes

• Hakthorn(') 1293 RSu 1317 Pat 1332 SR 1374 Pat

• Hakthorne 1539 AD

• Hacktorn 1187 Dane l12 HarlCh 1294 Pat

• Hackthorn 1233 Welles 1284 Abbr 1312 Ipm 1576 Saxton

• Hackthorne 1317 Inqaqd 1535 VEiv 1575 LER

• Haughthorn 1209–35 LAHW

• Haghthorn 1281 QW

• Haghethorn 1299 Pat

Etymology

Ekwall is no doubt correct, Studies2, 119, when he says “The name means 'the hawthorn', but the Old English form of that word is haguþorn (or hægþorn ), whence hawthorn by normal development.HACKTHORN seems to presuppose an Old English sideform hæggþorn or the like”.