Hoon

Hoon, Derbyshire

Hoon, in the Appletree Hundred of Derbyshire, is a simplex place-name from haugum, the dative plural form of Old Norse haugr ‘a natural height, a hill, a heap, an artificial mound, a burial mound’, which gives the sense ‘at the barrows’. One of these barrows is now called Hoon Mount.

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Keywords

burial mound, Derbyshire, place-name, simplex

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Acknowledgements

Image © Copyright Richard Webb, via Geograph, CC BY-SA 2.0

References

Kenneth Cameron, The Place-Names of Derbyshire III. English Place-Name Society Volume XXIX (1959), p. 573.