Hardwick
Sign in to saveHardwick and Hardwicke are common place names in England—this is from the Old English pre-7th century word "heorde", meaning a "herd or flock", with "wic", which like the later Viking word "thorp" described an outlying farm or settlement, which was dependent on a larger village. In some cases, "Hardwick" and "Hardwicke" are interchangeable and the spelling has evolved over time.
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Hardwick and Hardwicke are common place names in England—this is from the Old English pre-7th century word "heorde", meaning a "herd or flock", with "wic", which like the later Viking word "thorp" described an outlying farm or settlement, which was dependent on a larger village. In some cases, "Hardwick" and "Hardwicke" are interchangeable and the spelling has evolved over time.
==Places== ===United Kingdom=== Hardwick, Buckinghamshire Hardwick, Cambridgeshire Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, home of Bess of Hardwick Hardwick Hall, County Durham Hardwick Hall Country Park Hardwick, County Durham Hardwick, Lincolnshire Hardwick, Monmouthshire Hardwick, Norfolk RAF Hardwick, Norfolk Hardwick, Northamptonshire Hardwick, Cherwell, Oxfordshire Hardwick, West Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire Hardwick, Rutland, a lost settlement in the United Kingdom Hardwick, Suffolk Hardwick, Walsall, an area in Walsall Hardwick Village, Nottinghamshire East Hardwick, West Yorkshire West Hardwick, West Yorkshire Kempston Hardwick, Bedfordshire Kites Hardwick, Warwickshire Priors Hardwick, Warwickshire
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