- and now part of Wormhill. The name
Hargate Wall
derives from Old
English Herdwyk-waella,
meaning "herd farm by the spring", so the
first settlement was...
- 1382, “The
Prior holds the
manor of
Mugliswyk in
exchange for the vill of
Herdwyk. The
estate has
remained ever
since vested in the
Church of Durham.” There...
- as
Herdewic Hardwick SP720970 Lost
place in Shangton,
recorded 1252 as
Herdwyk Hogston Lost
place in Sileby,
recorded in the 17th
century as
Hogston side...
-
Prioresses of Carrow, were
Robert de
Cokethorp (1306),
Richard Sekkesteyn of
Herdwyk (1330),
Richard de'Qirytewafh (1331),
Robert King of
Cnapeton (1335), John...
- the village, but do****ents from 1120
refer to a Herdwica, and in 1296 as
Herdwyk. The name
means herd farm, an area used for
livestock instead of arable...
