[Image: Fragment of the Gough Map]
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Full record: Hartlepool

County Durham
Transcript herthepoll
Icon description two buildings, spired church, walls with one gate
Icons
  • buildings (multiple)
  • church
  • gate
Description faded
Appearances
  • faded
Etymology OE heorot, 's.a.' + īeg, 'island'
Translation
Earlier editors [Hartle]pool (Gough)
Early Maps hertillpole (Angliae Figura); h(er)telpole (Totius Britanniae; single building, castle, walls with one gate)
Overwritten no
Attested spelling Hertepol c. 1225 Guis; a great marjority of attestations, both early and late have the first element in the form herter- or hertel-, in various spellings