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.

Sheepe Close

Field in the Parish of Hemsby

Historical Forms

Sheepe Close 1687 HD

Hangingewong 1687 HD

Etymology

Sheepe Close als Hangingewong 1687 HD(v. hangende'hanging', used about'land on a steepslope', cf. Field s.n., and vangr)

Places in the same Parish