North Hayling
North Hayling, Havantcounty:
coords:
Hampshire
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Hayling, North
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'.
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- settlement, hamlet - Heling Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
