Heydon
Major Settlement in the Parish of Heydon
Historical Forms
- Heidon 1196,1226 FF 1250 Ass 1241 Cl
- Haydon 1225 Cur 1361 Pat
- Heydon 1242–3 Fees 1253,1311 Ipm 1278,1334,1403 FF 1291 Tax 1302to1401–2 FA 1336 Pat 1347 Fine 1432 Fine 1443 Past 1535 VE
- Heydone 1254–75 Val 1257,1269,1286 Ass 1325 Ipm 1325,1349 FF
- Heydona 1276 Walsing
- Hedon 1399 Pat
Etymology
OE hēg 'hay' and dūn 'hill', i.e. 'hill where hay is made'.
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
- Bell's Grove
- Icehouse Plantation
- Marlpit Belt
- The Belt
- Blackwater Plantation
- Brake Hills Plantation
- Bullocks Shed Plantation
- Bullocks Shed Lodge
- Carman's Belt
- Carpenter's Shop Plantation
- Cawston Plantation
- Chasteney's Belt
- Cromwell's Oak
- Cropton Hall
- Deer Paddock
- Dog Corner
- Eagle Lodges
- The Grange
- Great Belt
- The Grove
- Harold's Grove
- Heydon Hall
- Home Farm
- Malthouse Farm
- Norwich Road Plantation
- Oak Grove
- Old Common
- Ollands Farm
- Oxnead Plantation
- Park Farm
- Red Pits
- The Rookery
- Sainfoin Plantation
- Spink's Lane
- Thirty Acre Plantation
- Black Bridge Wood
- Jenning's Row
- Massingham's Grove, Monson's Wood, Newhall Wood
- American Plantation
- Blackwater Lane
- Little Moor Pond