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Haywards Heath

Haywards Heath proper noun: a town and civil parish with a town council in Mid Sussex district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ3323).

Proper noun

Haywards Heath

  1. A town and civil parish with a town council in Mid Sussex district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ3323).

Origin of Haywards Heath

Recorded as Heyworth in 1261, from Old English hege + worð (“enclosure with a hedge”), and as Haywards Hoth in 1544.

Questions about Haywards Heath

What does Haywards Heath mean?
Haywards Heath means a town and civil parish with a town council in Mid Sussex district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ3323).
What part of speech is Haywards Heath?
Haywards Heath is a proper noun.

Words near Haywards Heath in the dictionary

  1. haywain
  2. haywains
  3. hayward
  4. haywards
  5. Haywards Bay
  6. Haywards Heath
  7. haywire
  8. haywired
  9. haywireness
  10. haywires
  11. haywiring

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