Hayling Island
Hayling Island, Havantcounty:
coords:
Hampshire
SU7202
otherwise: heglingaigae; haeglinga iggae, 956-12; Helingey; Halingei, 1086; Hailinges, 1139-1142; Heling; Heyling', 1242; Helinghey, 1261; Hayling, 1316
HAYLING ISLAND, NORTH and SOUTH HAYLING
The island was originally hypothetical Old English 'Haegelinga eg'='island of the Haegelingas'. This seems to have been a folk name based on a dubious, unattested, personal name 'Haegel'. (This, if real, might have been a pet form of one of the men's names in 'Heah-' if the analogy of 'Baeddi' for a 'Beadu-' name is a good one.) The form 'Hailinges' suggests either that the folk name denoted the place, as in the case of 'Hastings' (Sussex); or that the place was named in the plural in Middle English for the two parishes of Hayling, called in medieval times 'Northwode' and 'Southwode'. The disappearance of the woodland may account for the modern replacement names 'North' and 'South Hayling'.
The place is described in text Cox 1738
- salterns - Hampshire
Hayling and Thorney, two Islands: Hayling is the larger, ... Each of them hath a Parish-Church: Salt is made of the Sea-Water in several Places along this Shore, which at first is of a pale and green Colour, but by boiling is made of a pure White. 'Tis this Salt that St. Ambrose speaks of, when he says, Water is turned into firm and solid Salt, as is usual in the British Isles, which is crusted into a substance as hard and white as Marble, and is very wholesome. Hexham; lib. 4. cap. [11].
The place is described in text Camden 1610
- island - Hantshire
Period - 1600s
Before which [Havant], there lie two Islands, the one greater named Haling, ... and both of them have their severall parish church
Shown on an old map by Saxton 1575
- island - Southamtoniae
Period - 17th century, early
Listed in Domesday Book
- Boseberg Hundred - Hantscire
Period - 11th century
Period - 14th century (about 1360)
Drawn off the coast by Havant, not labelled.
