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.

Halfridge Fm

Early-attested site in the Parish of Acton Beauchamp

Historical Forms

  • Heafocrycge 973 BCS1282 c.1050
  • Alfridge c.1830 O

Etymology

If this identification is correct, the modern form is corrupt and the true name is 'hawk-ridge,' v. heafoc , hrycg and cf. Ockeridge infra 142. It is a very common place-name noted also in Berks, K, Sx.