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The history of Harringay tells the story of the development of the district of London five miles from its centre, affected by, but not always part of, the great city's history. ==Etymology== It is very probable that the name ''Harringay'' has its origin in the Saxon period, most likely derived from the name of a Saxon person, probably a local chieftain, called ''Hering'' - ''Heringes-hege'' in Old English means the enclosure of "Hering". The earliest written form was ''Harenhg'' in about 1195. It gave rise to the names Harringay (the district of London), the London Borough of Haringey, and Hornsey (a nearby district of London). Its development into these three forms was complex and included at least 162 variations. Since the history of Hornsey is mostly common with that of present-day Harringay and the etymology is shared, both are covered in this section. The name of the London Borough of Haringey is included to explain spelling differences. In 1243, the name was recorded as ''Haringesheye'', an intermediate form between the Saxon ''Heringes-hege'' and its three present-day forms. With the second ‘g’ pronounced as ‘y’ in Old English, it can be seen how close the two versions were. In 1371 ''Haryngeay'' was recorded, and 16 years later ''Haringey'' appeared for the first time, making it the oldest of the three present-day forms. ''Haryngay'' appeared in 1393 and ''Harringay'' in 1569. The variant that became Hornsey developed the addition of an 's' in the middle with the use of ''Harnsey'', recorded in 1392, and ''Hornsey'' appeared in 1646.〔, The writer is much indebted to the enormously scholarly work of Stephen Madge whose exhaustive and painstaking research conducted over a period of 35 years should be regarded as the definitive text on the origins of the name Harringay. The first part of this section is entirely based on his work.〕 Until the close of the eighteenth century all variants referred to the same area, around present-day Harringay and Hornsey, but from the late Tudor period Hornsey took precedence in common usage: Harringay survived more as a legal entity and in the records of the Manor of Harringay. The building of the large mansion of ''Harringay House'' in 1792 at the top of the hill between present-day Hewitt and Allison Roads saw the divergence of meaning of the names. Hornsey referred to the present-day district and subsequently the parish and Middlesex borough; Harringay to the house, its surrounding park and finally the present-day district, and continued as the common name in manorial records. Whilst the early residents of Harringay continued to use that name, in official documents from the early twentieth century the Borough of Hornsey referred to it as Haringey, which became the name of the London Borough of Haringey, created in 1964 when the Boroughs of Hornsey, Wood Green and Tottenham merged. A letter from a council officer in 1984 said, "When Tottenham and Hornsey were joined to form the new borough in 1964, the choice of name rested with a special panel which, after public consultation, opted for one of the spellings of the modern Borough of Hornsey. We are not aware of the reasons for that choice". Pupils in local schools at the time were taught that the new borough's name should be pronounced with the same ending as Finchley, Hackney and Hornsey.〔Valerie Crosby, Archivist, Bruce Castle Archives, London Borough of Haringey, 2007〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「History of Harringay」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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