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.

Hursdon

Other OS name in the Parish of Sourton

Historical Forms

  • Herleston 1197 HMC

Etymology

is Hurlesdon 1330, Herlesdon 1333SR (p) . Possibly ' Heor (uw )ulf 's hill , ' v. dun . Cf. Harlesden (Mx) , Herulvestune 1086 DB , but Herleston in 1197 (HMC App. ix, 12) .