Hepburn, Northumberland

Hepburn is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the civil parish of Chillingham in the county of Northumberland, England. The civil parish was merged into Chillingham in 1935.[1] In 1951 the civil parish had a population of 43.[2]

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Etymology

The standard authorities give Hepburn as in origin an Old English name deriving from heah 'high' + byrgen 'burial mound'.[3]

See also

References
  1. "Relationships and changes Hepburn Tn/CP through time". Vision of Britain. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
  2. "Population Statistics Naughton CP/AP through time". Vision of Britain. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
  3. Bethany Fox, 'The P-Celtic Place-Names of North-East England and South-East Scotland', The Heroic Age, 10 (2007), http://www.heroicage.org/issues/10/fox.html (appendix at http://www.heroicage.org/issues/10/fox-appendix.html).

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