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Harden

village

Old EnglishAI-generated

Harden likely means 'the enclosure or farmstead on the hard ground'. It combines 'heard', meaning hard, with 'denu', meaning valley or den.

Word origins

heard
Old Englishhard(from heard "hard")
denu
Old Englishvalley, den(from denu "valley")

Historical forms

Heardene