Haselbech
Major Settlement in the Parish of Haselbech
Historical Forms
- Esbece 1086 DB
- Haselbech(e) 12th Survey
- Haselbeht 1235 Fees
- Haselbek 1261 Ass
- Hasilbec 1270 Ipm
- Haselbach 1281 Ch
- Haselbecche 1314 Cl
- Hayselbeche 1316 FA
- Haselbeech 1608 Ipm
- Heselbech(e) c.1220 WellsR 1284 FA 1300 Ipm
- Heselbegh' c.1220 WellsR
- Hasilbitche 1586 FF
- Haselbitch(e) 1639 StJ 1730 Poll
- Haselbich 1712 Morton
Etymology
Topographically, Haselbech is much more likely to be named from the high ground on which it stands than from either of the slight valleys which fall away from it on the north- and southwest, so that we probably have the word beche , bache , 'hill,' as in Burbage (Lei), rather than the better known bache , beche , 'valley.' See further EPN s. v. bæc .