Editing Hadleigh, Suffolk (section)

==Origin of the name==
[[Walter Skeat|Skeat]], in his 1913 ''The Place-Names of Suffolk'', says this:
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Spelt ''Hadlega'', [[Red Book of the Exchequer|R.B.]]; ''Hadleigh'', [[Inquisition post mortem|Ipm]].; ''Hædleage'', in a late chapter, [[Benjamin Thorpe|Thorpe]], Diplomat, 527; ''Headlega'', [[Annals of St Neots|Annals of St Neot]], quoted in [[Charles Plummer (historian)|Plummer]]'s ed. of the [[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle|A.S.Chronicle]], ii. 102; ''Hetlega'', [[Domesday Book|D.B.]], p.184. In D.B. the ''t'' stands for ''th''; and the true A.S. form appears in a Worcs. charter, dated 849, as ''hæðleage''(gen.) with reference to Headley Heath (a tautological name) in Birch, C.S. ii. 40; see Duignan, Placenames of Worcs. The sense is 'heath-lea.' In a similar way the A.S. ð has become t in Hatfield (Herts.) which means 'heath-field'.<ref>{{cite book |first=Walter |last=Skeat |author-link=Walter Skeat |year=1913 |title=The Place-Names of Suffolk |url=https://archive.org/details/placenamesofsuff00skearich |location=Cambridge |publisher=[[Cambridge Antiquarian Society]] |page=[https://archive.org/details/placenamesofsuff00skearich/page/78 78]}}</ref>
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