-Hay (place name element)


-hay is a place-name word-ending common in England. It derives from the Old English word hege or haga, Middle English heie, in Icelandic hagi, meaning "an enclosed
field", and is from the same root as the English word "hedge", a structure which surrounds and encloses an area of land, from the Norman-French haie, "a hedge". Haw and Hay are cognate and both
mean "hedge".

Examples

Exeter

In the vicinity of Exeter:
In the vicinity of Tiverton: