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.

Hayes Fm

Early-attested site in the Parish of Tenbury

Historical Forms

  • de Haya, del Hay, in le Hey 1275 SR 1302 Ipm
  • Heyswood al. Beryton Haye 1545 LP

Etymology

v. (ge)hæg. These last two names remind us that we are in an old woodland area.