Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• le Hadds 1326 WCR

• (the) Hades 1575 WillY 1709 WMB

Etymology

Hades, le Hadds 1326 WCR, (the ) Hades 1575 WillY, 1709 WMB, cf. also Hadeker 1316 WCR, Hades Green infra , and the f.n. Hade Ing infra . This appears to be dial. hade , a common f.n. el., which is used in much the same way as headland (v. hēafod-land); it is without doubt a development of ME  haved , a dial. variant of the more usual heved , from OE  heafod 'hēad', though this particular variety hade appears to be restricted to p.ns. until the sixteenth century (NED s.v. hade ); other variants include hude and hawde (cf. O 448–9 s.v. hades ).