Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Herdewik 1281 Cl

• Herdewyk(e) 1315 Ass 1315 Ipm 1384 Cl

• Empyngham Herdewyk 1316 FA

• Herdwyk 1295 Ipm 1318 Pat 1362 Ipm

• Hardwick 1610 Speed 1695 Map 1701 Deed

• Hardwick Farm 1795,1893 Anc

• Hardwick Lodge 1846 White

• Hardwick Wood c1700 Rental 1795,1818,1893 Anc

Etymology

'The herd farm', i.e. 'the sheep farm', v. heorde-wīc. The identification of Harduic 1086 DB, a berewick of Archbishop Aldred's vill of Skillington L, with the Rutland Hardwick is suggested in C.W. Foster and T. Longley, The Lincolnshire Domesday and the Lindsey Survey , Lincs. Record Society 19 (1924, repr. 1976), xl and 227. Minor names arising appear as Hardwick Farm 1795, 1893Anc , Hardwick Lodge 1846 White, Hardwick Wood c1700Rental , 1795, 1818, 1893Anc . In 1383–4, the whole village is described as waste and destroyed, v. Blore 144. Its site may have been at SK 973 123, v. BrownArchSites 9.