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.

Yeading

Early-attested site in the Parish of Hayes

Historical Forms

  • (in regione quæ dicitur) Geddinges 757 BCS182 12th
  • Geddingas 793 BCS265
  • (æt) Geddincggum 825 ib
  • Geddinges 1211 RBE 1274 Ass
  • Yedding(g)s 1325 FF
  • Yeddyng 1331 ib
  • manor of Geddyng otherwise called Yeddyngesmaner 1541 FF
  • Yedinge Grene 1571 Ct

Etymology

'The people of Geddi ,' v. ingas and PN in -ing 52–3. For in regione , v. Introd. supra xiv.

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Major Settlement

Early-attested site