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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.

Haw Top

Other OS name in the Parish of Royston

Historical Forms

  • le Hou 13 YDviii
  • le Hawe 13,1345 ib

Etymology

, 1843TA , le Hou 13 YD viii, le Hawe 13, 1345 ib , v. haugr ' mound, hill ' , here the name of a prominent hill .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site