Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Holand, Hoiland 1086 DB

• Holand(e), Holanda e.13 Brett 13 Nost145 1250 Ebor c.1260 Nost145 1284 Ebor 1297 LS 1397 YDvi,66

• Est Holand 1360 FF

• Nether Holand, Nethyr Holand, Neyer Holand 1390 SheffMan 1548 WillY

• Huland 1406 Testi

• Netherhulland 1523 FF

• Neder Hollande 1542 WillY

• Howland 1568 FF

• Netherhooland 1578,1594 FF

• Hoyland(e) 1580 WillY

• Nether Hoyland 1590 FF 1822 Langd

Etymology

This name is of the same origin as Upper Hoyland (infra ) (from which it is distinguished by the affixes Est - (v. ēast ) and Nether - (v. neoðera )), High Hoyland 321, and Hoyland Swaine 308infra , all with similar runs of spellings. Since each of these places is located on or near the end or edge of a ridge, the name is to be derived from OE  hōh 'spur of land' and land . Interesting phonological problems are raised. Sporadic forms in Hoi -, Hoy - in DB and in some twelfth and thirteenth century sources for the other names are probably of AN origin and no doubt attempt to represent or at least to recognise the presence of the long vowel in OE  hōh -; they are not to be confused with the later Hoy - spellings which represent a local dialect change of o to oi [ɔi] in an open syllable from the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries (cf. Phonol. §§ 28, 30). Presumably at an early stage the vowel in hōh -lande was shortened to o in the trisyllabic oblique form Holande . The long vowel was retained in forms like Hu -, Hoo -.Cf. also Hooton 124, 136, Soyland iii, 62infra .