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.

Hawneferne(lost)

Other OS name in the Parish of Gussage St Michael

Historical Forms

  • Hawnferne 1795 Boswell

Etymology

( lost ) ) , 1589, 1863 Hutch3 , Hawnferne 1795 Boswell ; the first el . is probably the OE  pers.n.Hagona or a ME surname derived from it , cf. DEPN s.n. Haunton St , the second el . may be fergen ' wooded hill ' or ( more likely ) fearn in the collective sense ' ferny place ' , cf. Fern Down in Hampreston par . infra .