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Survey of English Place-Names

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Hungate

Other OS name in the Parish of Aylsham

Historical Forms

  • Hungate Streete 1624 AylshamRent

Etymology

, name of the street running out of Aylsham to Norwich , Hungate Streete 1624Aylsham Rent , cf. Thos . de Hundegate 1257Ass ( v. hund and gata , a name found many times in Norfolk , e.g. in Norwich, PN Nf I 128 , presumably sometimes used in a derogatory sense ) .