Editing Ruislip (section)

===Toponymy===
At the time of [[Edward the Confessor]], the manors of Ruislip and [[Ickenham]] belonged to a [[Saxon]] named Wulfward White,<ref name="OD"/> a [[Thegn|thane]] of the king who owned land in 11 counties. Ruislip parish included what are now Ruislip, [[Northwood, London|Northwood]], [[Eastcote]], [[Ruislip Manor]] and [[South Ruislip]].<ref>Bowlt 1994, p.8</ref> Wulfward lost much of his land during the [[Norman conquest of England]]; [[Ernulf de Hesdin|Arnulf de Hesdin]] took control of Ruislip – his ownership is recorded within the 1086 ''[[Domesday Book]]''.<ref>Bowlt 1994, p.11</ref><ref name="OD"/>

Ruislip appears in ''Domesday Book'' as ''Rislepe'',<ref name="OD">{{cite web |title=Ruislip {{!}} Domesday Book |url=https://opendomesday.org/place/TQ0986/ruislip/ |website=opendomesday.org |publisher=Anna Powell-Smith |access-date=22 November 2021}}</ref> thought to mean 'leaping place on the river where rushes grow', in reference to the [[River Pinn]].<ref>Mills 2001, p.196</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Middlesex/Ruislip/|title = Key to English Place-names}}</ref> It is formed from the [[Old English]] 'rysc' and 'hlȳp'. Translated from [[Latin]], an entry reads:
{{blockquote|M. Arnulf [Ernulf] of Hesdin holds Rislepe [Ruislip]. It is assessed for 30 [[Hide (unit)|hides]].{{efn|A hide was originally an amount of land suitable for supporting a household, but became a measure for assessing land for tax in Anglo-Saxon England.}} Land for 20 [[plough]]s. In lordship 11 hides; 3 ploughs there. There are 12 ploughs between the Frenchmen and the villagers; a further 5 possible.

A priest, ½ hide; 2 villagers with 1 hide; 17 villagers, 1 [[virgate]]{{efn|A virgate was a unit of land area measurement used in medieval England, and was held to be the amount of land that a team of two oxen could plough in a single annual season.}} each; 10 villagers, ½ virgate each; 7 smallholders, 4 acres each; 8 cottagers; 4 [[Slavery_in_Britain#Norman_and_medieval_England|slaves]]; 4 Frenchmen with 3 hides and 1 virgate.

[[Pasture]] for the village livestock; a park for woodland beasts; woodland, 1500 pigs, and 20[[Pence|d]] too.

Total value £20; when acquired £12; before 1066 £30.

Wulfward White,<ref name="OD"/> a [[Thegn|thane]] of King Edward's, held this manor; he could sell it to whom he would.<ref>Morris 1975, p.10</ref>}}

Under Edward the Confessor, Ruislip had been valued at £30, though the reduction to £12 by the time Ernulf de Hesdin took possession is believed to have been caused by a passing unit of the [[Normans|Norman]] Army taking crops. This led to the construction of buildings at [[Manor Farm, Ruislip|Manor Farm]] to protect produce.<ref name="Bowlt p.12">Bowlt 1994, p.12</ref>

Before leaving England to fight in the Holy Lands, Ernulf de Hesdin gave ownership of Ruislip to the [[Benedictine]] [[Bec Abbey]] in 1087. He died fighting and is commemorated in annual masses held in June at Sacred Heart Church and on the remains of the [[motte-and-bailey]] at Manor Farm.<ref name="Bowlt p.12"/>

It was an [[Civil Parish#Ancient parishes|ancient parish]] in the historic county of [[Middlesex]], part of the [[Hundred (country subdivision)|hundred]] of [[Elthorne Hundred|Elthorne]].