English Place-name Society

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.

Edgerton

Early-attested site in the Parish of Huddersfield

Historical Forms

  • Eggerton 1311 YI
  • Hegerton 1379 PT
  • Egerton 1402 FA 1436 DodsN 1623 FF
  • Edgerton 1512 WB22 1560 FF

Etymology

Edgerton, Eggerton 1311 YI, Hegerton 1379 PT (p), Egerton 1402 FA, 1436 DodsNet freq to 1623 FF, Edgerton 1512WB 22, 1560 FF.The first el. is the OE  pers.n. Ecgheard or, as Ritter 146 suggests, an unrecorded OE  Ecghere , corresponding to OHG  Egiheri . v. tūn , and cf. Egerton 305infra (with which it can be confused), Egerton Ch.

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site