Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Huperun 1086 DB

• Huperum 13 YDvii 13 Font 1206–18 YChviii Ed1 Arm

• Hiperum, Hyperum 1185–1202 YChviii e.13 Font 13 YDvii 1266 YI 1274–1313 WCR 1276 RH 1290 Linds 1419 YDvii

• Hyperun(e) e.13 Arm 1235 YChviii

• Hyperom 1321 WCR 1461 YDii 1488 YDi 1522 YDvii

• Hyperoun 1329 ADi

• Hyperome 1371 YDi 1502 FF

• Hyperon e.15 Arm

• Yperum 1202 FF

• Ypproun 1405 Pat

• Hipperum 1320 YDiii 1349 YDiv

• Hipperom 1433 Arm

• Hipperon 1546 YChant

• Hipperhom 1560 Arm

• Hipperholme 1562 YDi 1611 FF 1822 Langd

• Hiprum, Hyprum 1343 YDiii 1379 PT

• Hypron 1397 YDi

• Hyprom 1400 YDiii

Etymology

'(Amongst) the osiers', v. hyper , -um . The word is found independently only in dial. hipper 'osier' and the compound hipperholme 'a field where osiers are grown' (EDD), but it occurs in other p.ns. like Hipperley YN 99 and the late p.n. Hipperholme 182infra ; Hipperholme carries its use back to late OE times. On the spellings with Hup - cf. Phonol. § 33.