The story
- Old English · derived fromhoh“hill spur”
- English todayHoyland
From Old English hoh (“hill spur”) + land (“(cultivated) land”).
Words from the same roots
Old Englishhoh all →
howHoughtonhowehooHuttonkewhoughHoltonHowarthhockMintoHullandheugh
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.