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.

Hinckford Hundred

Hundred in the County of Essex

Historical Forms

  • Hidincfort, Hidincforda, Hiding(a)forda, Hiding(a)fort, Hiding(h)afort, Hidingh(e)forda, Hidingeforda, Hedingfort 1086 DB
  • Hengham 1161–2 P 1198 Cur 1264 Misc 1285 Ipm
  • Haingeford, He(y)ing(e)ford 1167–90 P 1185 RotDom 1219 Fees 1235 Ass
  • Haingesford 1167 ChancR
  • Heng(e)ford 1190 P 1235–55 Ass 1238 SR 1280 Ipm 1346 FA
  • Hainford 1259 Ipm
  • Hynkford p.1420 FA
  • hundred de Hynham 1470 MinAcct
  • hundred-and-a-half in 1176 (P)

Etymology

For the etymology v. Hedingham infra 439. The meeting- place of the hundred was at Crouch Green in Castle Hedingham, infra 439–40, earlier Motstowe , 'meeting-place,' where was the ford from which the hundred took its name. v. EAS xviii, 185–6, 294, xix, 62. Called a hundred-and -a-half in 1176 (P).