Hardwick Explained

Hardwick and Hardwicke are common place names in England—this is from the Old English pre-7th century word "heorde", meaning a "herd or flock", with "wic", which like the later Viking word "thorp" described an outlying farm or settlement, which was dependent on a larger village. In some cases, "Hardwick" and "Hardwicke" are interchangeable and the spelling has evolved over time.

Places

United Kingdom

• Hardwick, Buckinghamshire
• Hardwick, Cambridgeshire
• Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, home of Bess of Hardwick
• Hardwick Hall, County Durham
  • Hardwick Hall Country Park
• Hardwick, County Durham
• Hardwick, Lincolnshire
• Hardwick, Monmouthshire
• Hardwick, Norfolk
  • RAF Hardwick, Norfolk
• Hardwick, Northamptonshire
• Hardwick, Cherwell, Oxfordshire
• Hardwick, West Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire
• Hardwick, Rutland, a lost settlement in the United Kingdom
• Hardwick, Suffolk
• Hardwick, Walsall, an area in Walsall
• Hardwick Village, Nottinghamshire
• East Hardwick, West Yorkshire
• West Hardwick, West Yorkshire
• Kempston Hardwick, Bedfordshire
• Kites Hardwick, Warwickshire
• Priors Hardwick, Warwickshire

The Netherlands

• Harderwijk

United States

• Hardwick, California
• Hardwick, Baldwin County, Georgia
• Hardwick, Bryan County, Georgia
• Hardwick, Massachusetts
• Hardwick, Minnesota
• Hardwick, Vermont, a New England town
  • Hardwick (CDP), Vermont, village in the town
• Hardwick Field, an airport in Tennessee
• Hardwick Township, New Jersey

Australia

• Hardwicke Street, New South Wales

Business

• Hardwick Clothes, the oldest manufacturer of tailor-made clothing in the United States
• Hardwick Stove Company, a former cooking appliance manufacturer merged with Maytag in 1981
• Hardwick and Woodbury Railroad, a former railroad in Vermont, U.S.A.

Other uses

• Hardwick (surname)
• Hardwicke (surname)
• Hardwick (appliances), a Maytag brand
• No 790 Hardwicke, a LNWR Improved Precedent Class speed-record-breaking steam engine during the Race to the North

See also

• Hartwick (disambiguation)
• Herdwick, a breed of sheep from the Lake District, England
• Hardwicke (disambiguation)