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.

Healing

Major Settlement in the Parish of Healing

Historical Forms

  • Hechelinge 1086 DB
  • Heghelinge 1086 DB
  • Heghelinga c.1115 LS
  • Hegelinge 1086 DB 1166 RBE 1180 P 1235 Dugdvi
  • Hegeling' Hy2 LN 1208 Cur 1218 Ass
  • Heigeling Hy2 Selby e14
  • Hegling' 1201 FF c.1240 IB
  • Heglinge 1212 Fees
  • Heglyng' l13 Selby e14
  • Heiling' eHy2,Hy2(e13) NCot 1199 Memo 1202 Ass 1208 P 1208 FF 1209 P 1221 Welles Hy3 Selby e14
  • Heilinga 1166,1167 P
  • Heilinge 1193,1194 1196 ChancR 1197 P
  • Heilling' 1219 Ass
  • Heyling' 1242–43 Fees 1252 Cl 1269 RRGr 1281 QW 1316 FA 1344 Fine 1354 Orig
  • Heylinge 1563 BT
  • Heylingge 1282 Ass 1318 Selby
  • Heylingg 1303 FA
  • Heylyng 1291 Tax 1311 Ipm 1327,1332 SR 1340 Ipm 1354 Cl 1354 Fine 1360,1380,1404 Pat
  • Heyeling' Hy3 Selby e14
  • Heylinges 1254 ValNor 1285 RSu 1353 Ipm
  • Hailinges 1180 P
  • Helling' 1191 P Hy3 Selby e14
  • Helinge 1195 P 1554 PrState 1555,1558 InstBen 1576 LER 1585 SC
  • Heling' 1198 P Hy3(e14),1284 Selby
  • Heling 1365 ADii 1526 Sub 1553 Pat a1567 LNQv 1576 Saxton 1610 Speed
  • Helyng 1346 FA 1353,1359 Ipm 1366 ADii 1369 Misc 1369 Pat 1373,1375,1385 Peace 1395 Ch 1634–42 Holles
  • Helynge 1385 Cl 1556 LNQxiv
  • Helinges 1212 Cur
  • Helynges 1427 Cl
  • Hecliga (sic) Hy2 Dane
  • Heheling 1212 Fees
  • Heigling 1221 Guis
  • Healyng 1566 BT
  • Healing 1590,1596,1601,1668 ib
  • Healinge 1664 Terrier

Etymology

'The followers, the people of Hægel', v. -ingas , the first el. being the unrecorded OE  pers.n. *Hægel , found also in the identical Hayling (Ha). OE  *Hægel belongs to the Germanic root contained in OE , OSax  haga 'an enclosure', cf. also OE  hagusteald 'a bachelor, a warrior, the landless member of a following' and the OSax  pers.n. Hagelin , Heilin . Healing is in origin a group-name denoting a body of people bound by kinship or lordship, Hægel being the name of the leader. Healing became a p.n. when the Hægelingas settled in what is today Healing. It is the only such p.n. formation found in the North Riding of Lindsey, though such group-names form the first el. of Immingham, Killingholme, Stallingborough and the lost Lopingham , in the same area, PN L 2, 163, 193, 268 and 149.