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.

South Hidden Fm

Other OS name in the Parish of Great Shefford

Etymology

, no early forms have been found for this name but cf. Hidden in Hungerford 304 . This farm in Shefford is N . of the places listed there , so cannot be named in relation to them . It is situated at the head of a valley which runs S . from the R . Lambourn , and this valley may have been named hȳð -denu , like the one in Hungerford .