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.

Heston

Major Settlement in the Parish of Heston

Historical Forms

  • Heston(e) 1123–33 OxfordCh
  • Hestune c.1130 ib
  • Eston 1176 P
  • Eston al. Heston 1443 FF
  • Histon(e) 1392,1401,1592 SR 1409 Pat
  • Heyston 1493–1500 ECP
  • Heston al. Heyston 1577 FF
  • Heeston 1542 LP 1544 FF
  • Heason 1600 ParReg(WestDrayton)
  • Hessen 1602 PCC
  • Hesson 1635 ParReg(Brentford)

Etymology

'Farm in the brushwood (district),' cf. Hayes infra 39. It is about four miles distant from that place, v. tun .

Places in the same Parish